Indirect development with an intermediate larva exists in all major animal lineages, which
makes larvae central to most scenarios of animal evolution,,,,,,,,–. Yet how larvae evolved …

Spiralians represent the least studied superclade of bilaterian animals, despite exhibiting
the widest diversity of organisms. Although spiralians include iconic organisms, such as …

Covering: findings from early 1980s until early 2022 Microbial-derived cues of marine
biofilms induce settlement and metamorphosis of marine organisms, a process responsible …

Mollusca represents the second largest animal phylum but remains poorly explored from a
genomic perspective. While the recent increase in genomic resources holds great promise …

The Earth's oceans brim with an incredible diversity of microscopic lifeforms, including motile
planktonic larvae, whose survival critically depends on effective dispersal in the water …

Pelagic larval stages are widespread across animals, yet it is unclear whether larvae were
present in the last common ancestor of animals or whether they evolved multiple times due …

A substantial body of literature reports that ctenophores exhibit an apparently unique life
history characterized by biphasic sexual reproduction, the first phase of which is called larval …

Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) has been among the most fascinating
interdisciplinary fields for decades, which aims to elucidate the origin and evolution of …

Here, we present a karyotype, a chromosome-scale genome assembly, and a genome
annotation from the ctenophore Hormiphora californensis (Ctenophora: Cydippida …

The availability of complete sets of genes from many organisms makes it possible to identify
genes unique to (or lost from) certain clades. This information is used to reconstruct …