Snail Shell Coiling (IMAGE)

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Snail Shell Coiling

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Knocking out one gene in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis reverses shell coiling. In contrast to the wild-type dextral snail (right), a CRISPR-created snail shows sinistral coiling (left).

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Dr Hiromi Takahashi of the Kuroda laboratory.

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