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Science 26 May 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5777, pp. 1145 - 1146
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128784
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
How Many Ways to Make a Chordate?

Patrick Lemaire

The regulatory gene circuits that control the development of a protochordate are simpler than those of sea urchins or vertebrates, indicating that their similar tadpole-like body plan can be constructed in several ways.

The author is at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille Luminy, UMR6216 CNRS-Université de la Méditerranée, Campus de Luminy, F-13288 Marseille cedex 9, France. E-mail: lemaire{at}ibdm.univ-mrs.fr

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