Reinvestigating the early embryogenesis in the flatworm Maritigrella crozieri 
highlights the unique spiral cleavage program found in polyclad flatworms.

Girstmair, Johannes; Telford, Maximilian J

doi:10.1186/s13227-019-0126-5

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Reinvestigating the early embryogenesis in the flatworm Maritigrella crozieri highlights the unique spiral cleavage program found in polyclad flatworms.

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Girstmair, Johannes
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Max Planck Society;

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Girstmair, J., & Telford, M. J. (2019). Reinvestigating the early embryogenesis in the flatworm Maritigrella crozieri highlights the unique spiral cleavage program found in polyclad flatworms. EvoDevo, 10: 12. doi:10.1186/s13227-019-0126-5.

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Spiral cleavage is a conserved, early developmental mode found in several phyla of Lophotrochozoans resulting in highly diverse adult body plans. While the cleavage pattern has clearly been broadly conserved, it has also undergone many modifications in various taxa. The precise mechanisms of how different adaptations have altered the ancestral spiral cleavage pattern are an important ongoing evolutionary question, and adequately answering this question requires obtaining a broad developmental knowledge of different spirally cleaving taxa. In flatworms (Platyhelminthes), the spiral cleavage program has been lost or severely modified in most taxa. Polyclad flatworms, however, have retained the pattern up to the 32-cell stage. Here we study early embryogenesis of the cotylean polyclad flatworm Maritigrella crozieri to investigate how closely this species follows the canonical spiral cleavage pattern and to discover any potential deviations from it.