Left–Right Reversal Recurrently Evolved Regardless of Diaphanous-Related Formin Gene Duplication or Loss in Snails

• Published in: Journal of molecular evolution Vol. 91; no. 5; pp. 721 - 729
• Main Authors: Noda, Takeshi, Satoh, Noriyuki, Gittenberger, Edmund, Asami, Takahiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.10.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal Genetics and Genomics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Bradybaena; Cell Biology; Coiling; Cytoskeleton; Embryos; Eukaryotes; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Gastropoda; Gene duplication; Handedness; Life Sciences; Lymnaea; Microbiology; Mollusks; Original; Original Article; Phylogeny; Plant Genetics and Genomics; Plant Sciences; Snails; Internal selection; Gastropoda; Asymmetry; Bilateria; Spiralia; Spiral cleavage

Bilateria exhibit whole-body handedness in internal structure. This left–right polarity is evolutionarily conserved with virtually no reversed extant lineage, except in molluscan Gastropoda. Phylogenetically independent snail groups contain both clockwise-coiled (dextral) and counterclockwise-coiled...