Understanding body plan diversity: investigating post‑metamorphic skeletal growth in sea urchins

Prof Paola Oliveri and Dr Jeff Thompsom highlight the role of skeletogenic proteins in accretionary skeletal growth and cell proliferation in the addition of new metameric tissues. We gain an understanding of the developmental evolution of the sea urchin body plans on macroevolutionary timescales.

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