(IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Caption

Both chordate neural plate and ambulacrarian ciliary bands develop using a similar set of genes, suggesting these two organs are homologous.

Credit

Nori Satoh/OIST

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