Axial Patterning Beyond the Individual: Colony-level Organization in a Siphonophore Colony
Kohei Oguchi, Akifumi Yao, Hisanori Kohtsuka…·Toru Miura
The paper investigates colony-level axial patterning in siphonophores using gene expression analysis, showing that developmental regulators like Hox and Wnt genes are expressed in specific regions of the colony stem.