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A single origin of animal excretory organs

2020-11-17

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Excretion is an essential physiological process, carried out by all living organisms regardless of their size or complexity(1–3). Most animals, which include both protostomes (e.g. flies, flatworms) and deuterostomes (e.g. humans, sea urchins) (together Nephrozoa(4, 5)), possess specialized excretory organs. Those organs exhibit an astonishing diversity, ranging from units composed of just three distinct cells (e....

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d4bedc8b-160e-5559-805c-46f914eeae12
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10.1101/2020.11.15.378034
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