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SUBMITTER: Kraus Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4895019 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kraus Yulia Y Aman Andy A Technau Ulrich U Genikhovich Grigory G
Nature communications 20160527
The startling capacity of the amphibian Spemann organizer to induce naïve cells to form a Siamese twin embryo with a second set of body axes is one of the hallmarks of developmental biology. However, the axis-inducing potential of the blastopore-associated tissue is commonly regarded as a chordate feature. Here we show that the blastopore lip of a non-bilaterian metazoan, the anthozoan cnidarian Nematostella vectensis, possesses the same capacity and uses the same molecular mechanism for inducin ...[more]