A radical evolutionary makeover gave echinoderms their unusual body plan

Thurston Lacalli ()

Nature, 2023, vol. 623, issue 7987, 485-486

Abstract: Echinoderms such as starfish are unusual for their five-fold body symmetry. Maps of gene-expression patterns show how this body plan was acquired, and that the genes specifying head structures do the heavy lifting.

Keywords: Evolution; Developmental biology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-03123-1

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