Experimental Approach Reveals the Role of alx1 in the Evolution of the Echinoderm Larval Skeleton

• Hiroyuki Koga ,

  * E-mail: hiro1224koga@gmail.com

  Current address: Graduate school of Science, the University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Haruka Fujitani,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Yoshiaki Morino,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Norio Miyamoto,

  Affiliations Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

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• Jun Tsuchimoto,

  Affiliations Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, Institute for Molecular Science of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan

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• Tomoko F. Shibata,

  Current address: Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  Affiliation National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

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• Masafumi Nozawa,

  Affiliations Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan, Department of Genetics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Mishima, Japan

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• Shuji Shigenobu,

  Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan

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• Atsushi Ogura,

  Affiliation Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Nagahama, Japan

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• Kazunori Tachibana,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Bioscience, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

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• Masato Kiyomoto,

  Affiliation Marine and Coastal Research Center, Ochanomizu University, Tateyama, Japan

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• Shonan Amemiya,

  Affiliations Marine and Coastal Research Center, Ochanomizu University, Tateyama, Japan, Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, Research and Education Center of Natural Sciences, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

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• Hiroshi Wada

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

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