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The improbability of dorso-ventral axis inversion during animal evolution, as presumed by Geoffroy Saint Hilaire (English)
J.A.M. van den Biggelaar
1 Faculty of Biology, Dept. of Experimental Zoology University of Utrecht Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht Netherlands e-mail: JovandenBiggelaar@wanadoo.nl
E. Edsinger-Gonzales
1 Faculty of Biology, Dept. of Experimental Zoology University of Utrecht Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht Netherlands e-mail: JovandenBiggelaar@wanadoo.nl
2 Smithsonian Marine Station, Smithsonian Institution 701 Seaway Drive Fort Pierce FL 34949 e-mail: pelagosphera@hotmail.com
F.R. Schram
3 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics University of Amsterdam Mauritskade 57 1092 AD Amsterdam Netherlands e-mail: schram@science.uva.nl
Recent discoveries in the field of developmental genetics have lead to the resurrection of the old idea, first proposed in the early 19 th century, that the dorso-ventral axis of deuterostomes, such as vertebrates, has been inverted during the… (English)
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