Adoption of conserved developmental genes in development and origin of the medusa body plan

1 Department for Molecular Evolution and Development, Centre for Organismal Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, Wien 1090, Vienna, Austria

2 Present address: Computational Biology Unit, University of Bergen, Thormohlensgate 55, Bergen, 5008, Norway

3 Zoologisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 1-9, Kiel 24118, Germany

4 Marine Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun 904-0495, Okinawa, Japan

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