ERK1/2 is an ancestral organising signal in spiral cleavage

oleh: Océane Seudre, Allan M. Carrillo-Baltodano, Yan Liang, José M. Martín-Durán

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01

Deskripsi

How invertebrates with spiral cleavage establish their body plans is unclear. Here the authors show that, like molluscs, a basal annelid uses ERK1/2 to instruct body patterning, suggesting that this is a deep ancestral trait in animal embryogenesis.