Hox genes in a pentameral animal
Hox genes in a pentameral animal
Ellen Popodi* and Rudolf A. Raff
Summary
There is renewed interest in how the different body plans
of extant phyla are related. This question has traditionally
been addressed by comparisons between vertebrates
and Drosophila. Fortunately, there is now increasing
emphasis on animals representing other phyla. Pentam-
erally symmetric echinoderms are a bilaterian metazoan
phylum whose members exhibit secondarily derived
radial sym
