2016•NatureOpen access

The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

Michal Levin, Leon Anavy, Alison G. Cole, Eitan Winter, Natalia Mostov, Sally Khair, Naftalie Senderovich, Ekaterina Kovalev, David H. Silver, Martin E. Feder, Selene L. Fernández-Valverde, Nagayasu Nakanishi, David Simmons, Oleg Simakov, Tomas Larsson, Shang‐Yun Liu, Ayelet Jerafi-Vider, Karina Yaniv, Joseph F. Ryan, Mark Q. Martindale, Jochen C. Rink, Detlev Arendt, Sandie M. Degnan, Bernard M. Degnan, Tamar Hashimshony, Itai Yanai

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Key concepts: Phylum, Body plan, Phyletic gradualism, Biology, Evolutionary biology, Developmental biology, Transition (genetics), Phylogenetics