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The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

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  • Michal Levin

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion
    †Present addresses: Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany (M.L.); Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico (S.L.F.-V.); Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 N, Ocean Shore Blvd, St Augustine, Florida 32080-8610 USA (N.N.).)

  • Leon Anavy

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Alison G. Cole

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Eitan Winter

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Natalia Mostov

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Sally Khair

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Naftalie Senderovich

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Ekaterina Kovalev

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • David H. Silver

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Martin Feder

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde

    (School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
    †Present addresses: Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany (M.L.); Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico (S.L.F.-V.); Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 N, Ocean Shore Blvd, St Augustine, Florida 32080-8610 USA (N.N.).)

  • Nagayasu Nakanishi

    (School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
    †Present addresses: Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany (M.L.); Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico (S.L.F.-V.); Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 N, Ocean Shore Blvd, St Augustine, Florida 32080-8610 USA (N.N.).)

  • David Simmons

    (Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida)

  • Oleg Simakov

    (Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory)

  • Tomas Larsson

    (Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory)

  • Shang-Yun Liu

    (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)

  • Ayelet Jerafi-Vider

    (Weizmann Institute of Science)

  • Karina Yaniv

    (Weizmann Institute of Science)

  • Joseph F. Ryan

    (Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida)

  • Mark Q. Martindale

    (Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida)

  • Jochen C. Rink

    (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)

  • Detlev Arendt

    (Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory)

  • Sandie M. Degnan

    (School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland)

  • Bernard M. Degnan

    (School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland)

  • Tamar Hashimshony

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

  • Itai Yanai

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technion)

Abstract

Embryos in a particular phylum of the animal kingdom tend to most resemble one another at a stage in the middle of embryogenesis known as the phylotypic period; a transcriptional analysis of embryogenesis from single embryos of ten different phyla reveals that the transcripts expressed at the phylotypic stage (or mid-developmental transition) differ greatly between phyla, and a ‘phylum’ may be defined as a set of species sharing the same signals and transcription factor networks during the mid-developmental transition.

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  • Michal Levin & Leon Anavy & Alison G. Cole & Eitan Winter & Natalia Mostov & Sally Khair & Naftalie Senderovich & Ekaterina Kovalev & David H. Silver & Martin Feder & Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde & Na, 2016. "The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans," Nature, Nature, vol. 531(7596), pages 637-641, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:531:y:2016:i:7596:d:10.1038_nature16994
    DOI: 10.1038/nature16994
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