In:
Development, The Company of Biologists, Vol. 129, No. 13 ( 2002-07-01), p. 3021-3032
Kurzfassung:
Many regulatory genes appear to be utilized in at least superficially similar ways in the development of particular body parts in Drosophila and in chordates. These similarities have been widely interpreted as functional homologies, producing the conventional view of the last common protostome-deuterostome ancestor (PDA) as a complex organism that possessed some of the same body parts as modern bilaterians. Here we discuss an alternative view, in which the last common PDA had a less complex body plan than is frequently conceived. This reconstruction alters expectations for Neoproterozoic fossil remains that could illustrate the pathways of bilaterian evolution.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1477-9129
,
0950-1991
DOI:
10.1242/dev.129.13.3021
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
The Company of Biologists
Publikationsdatum:
2002
ZDB Id:
2007916-3
SSG:
12
