Echinoderm conundrums: Hox genes, heterochrony, and an excess of mouths

Larval body patterning and apical organs are conserved in animal evolution

(2014) Heather Marlow et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The evolution and conservation of left-right patterning mechanisms

(2014) M. Blum et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Hoxexpression in the direct-type developing sand dollarPeronella japonica

(2014) Jun Tsuchimoto et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

How Hox genes can shed light on the place of echinoderms among the deuterostomes

(2014) Bruno David et al.   EvoDevo

Nodal: master and commander of the dorsal–ventral and left–right axes in the sea urchin embryo

(2013) M Dolores Molina et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Oral–aboral identity displayed in the expression of HpHox3 and HpHox11/13 in the adult rudiment of the sea urchin Holopneustes purpurescens

(2013) Valerie B. Morris et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Early development of coelomic structures in an echinoderm larva and a similarity with coelomic structures in a chordate embryo

(2012) Valerie B. Morris   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Plated Cambrian Bilaterians Reveal the Earliest Stages of Echinoderm Evolution

(2012) Samuel Zamora et al.   PLoS One

Deuterostomes in a twist: the origins of a radical new body plan

(2008) Andrew B. Smith   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Molecular genetic insights into deuterostome evolution from the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii

(2008) C. J Lowe   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES