A comparative analysis of developmental transcriptomes across Metazoa provides a quantitative approach to test scenarios of life-cycle evolution and supports an ancestral adult form with later intercalation of larval stages.
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Khalturin, K. The origin of metazoan larvae. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 674–675 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1192-8
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