Brachiopod and mollusc biomineralisation is a conserved process that was lost in the phoronid-bryozoan stem lineage
Joel Vikberg Wernström, Ludwik Gąsiorowski, Andreas Hejnol
The paper identifies conserved genes involved in shell formation in brachiopods and molluscs, showing their orthologs in related phoronids and bryozoans, and finds gene loss in the latter groups.
EvoDevo · Sep 19, 2022Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology