Figure 2: Corals Lose Mouth Structures (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Figure 2: Corals Lose Mouth Structures

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Figure 2: Corals lose their mouth structures when brachyury is inhibited. This figure depicts a coral embryo with fully functional brachyury on the left and a coral embryo containing the inhibited gene on the right. The yellow circle shows the area where the mouth structure is expected.

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Yuuri Yasuoka

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