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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Itai Yanai
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-60471 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nature 20160217 7596
Animals are grouped into ~35 'phyla' based upon the notion of distinct body plans. Morphological and molecular analyses have revealed that a stage in the middle of development--known as the phylotypic period--is conserved among species within some phyla. Although these analyses provide evidence for their existence, phyla have also been criticized as lacking an objective definition, and consequently based on arbitrary groupings of animals. Here we compare the developmental transcriptomes of ten s ...[more]