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Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica
- Source :
- PeerJ, PeerJ, Vol 2, p e700 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- PeerJ Inc., 2014.
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Abstract
- Opisthobranch molluscs exhibit fascinating body plans associated with the evolution of shell loss in multiple lineages. Sea hares in particular are interesting because Aplysia californica is a well-studied model organism that offers a large suite of genetic tools. Bursatella leachii is a related tropical sea hare that lacks a shell as an adult and therefore lends itself to comparative analysis with A. californica. We have established an enhanced culturing procedure for B. leachii in husbandry that enabled the study of shell formation and loss in this lineage with respect to A. californica life staging.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Biomineralization
animal structures
Lineage (evolution)
Ontogeny
viruses
lcsh:Medicine
Zoology
Marine Biology
Aquaculture
Bursatella leachii
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
03 medical and health sciences
Larvae
Sea hares
14. Life underwater
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
biology
General Neuroscience
lcsh:R
General Medicine
Biodiversity
biology.organism_classification
Shell loss
Aplysia
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Developmental Biology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21678359
- Volume :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PeerJ
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3fa87089a9574b984867a489bc03a30e