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Evo-Devo in Ophiuroids: The Switch from Planktotrophy to Lecithotrophy in Ophionereis.
The Biological bulletin - 1 Jun 2023
Selvakumaraswamy Paulina, Byrne Maria
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AbstractUnderstanding the evolution of development (evo-devo) in the Ophiuroidea and the pathways in the switch from a feeding to a nonfeeding larva is complicated by the variability in the phenotype of the metamorphic larva, being a reduced yolky ophiopluteus in some species (type I development) and a vitellaria larva in others (type II development). We investigated evo-devo in the family Ophionereididae, a...
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