ArticleNature communications2013
Xenoturbella bocki exhibits direct development with similarities to Acoelomorpha.
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- Patterns of Conservation and Loss of Hox Genes in Xenacoelomorph Lineage Since Divergence From Last Common Bilaterian Ancestor.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Acoelomorph flatworm monophyly is a long-branch attraction artefact obscuring a clade of Acoela and Xenoturbellida.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Induced spawning with gamete release from body ruptures during reproduction of Xenoturbella bocki.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Multiple paedomorphic lineages of soft-substrate burrowing invertebrates: parallels in the origin of Xenocratena and Xenoturbella.PloS one · 2020Article
- A new species of Xenoturbella from the western Pacific Ocean and the evolution of Xenoturbella.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- What Explains Patterns of Diversification and Richness among Animal Phyla?The American naturalist · 2017Article
- Hidden diversity of Acoelomorpha revealed through metabarcoding.Biology letters · 2016Article
- What is Xenoturbella?Zoological letters · 2015Review
- Xenopus embryonic epidermis as a mucociliary cellular ecosystem to assess the effect of sex hormones in a non-reproductive context.Frontiers in zoology · 2014Article
- Larval anatomy of the pterobranch Cephalodiscus gracilis supports secondarily derived sessility concordant with molecular phylogenies.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2013Article
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Abstract
Xenoturbella bocki, a marine animal with a simple body plan, has recently been suggested to be sister group to the Acoelomorpha, together forming the new phylum Xenacoelomorpha. The phylogenetic position of the phylum is still under debate, either as an early branching bilaterian or as a sister group to the Ambulacraria (hemichordates and echinoderms) within the deuterostomes. Although development has been described for several species of Acoelomorpha, little is known about the life cycle of Xenoturbella. Here we report the embryonic stages of Xenoturbella, and show that it is a direct developer without a feeding larval stage. This mode of development is similar to that of the acoelomorphs, supporting the newly proposed phylum Xenacoelomorpha and suggesting that the last common ancestor of the phylum might have been a direct developer.
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