Echinoderms are a major group (phylum) of invertebrate animals with a rich fossil record
stretching back to the Cambrian period, approximately 518 million years ago. While all …

Microplastics are now polluting all seas and, while studies have found numerous negative
interactions between plastic pollution and marine animals, the effects on embryonic …

Biomineralization had apparently evolved independently in different phyla, using distinct
minerals, organic scaffolds, and gene regulatory networks (GRNs). However, diverse …

Abstract Changes in developmental gene regulatory networks (dGRNs) underlie much of the
diversity of life, but the evolutionary mechanisms that operate on regulatory interactions …

A fundamental goal in the organogenesis field is to understand how cells organize into
tubular shapes. Toward this aim, we have established the hydro-vascular organ in the sea …

Species within nearly all extant animal lineages are capable of regenerating body parts.
However, it remains unclear whether the gene expression programme controlling …

Deuterostomes are a monophyletic group of animals that includes Hemichordata,
Echinodermata (together called Ambulacraria), and Chordata. The diversity of deuterostome …

Cell types are the building blocks of metazoan biodiversity and offer a powerful perspective
for inferring evolutionary phenomena. With the development of single-cell transcriptomic …

Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) has been among the most fascinating
interdisciplinary fields for decades, which aims to elucidate the origin and evolution of …

Abstract Echinobase (www. echinobase. org) is a model organism knowledgebase serving
as a resource for the community that studies echinoderms, a phylum of marine invertebrates …