This sea worm's posterior swims away, and now scientists know how

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Nov 22, 2023, 5:00 am164 pts
A research team, led by Professor Toru Miura from the University of Tokyo, shows how the expression of developmental genes in the Japanese green syllid worms, Megasyllis nipponica, helps form their swimming reproductive unit called stolon. The work has been published in Scientific Reports.

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