Projektnummer

0061126

Zusammenfassung

A grand goal within the field of animal evolution is to identify processes that contribute to an understanding of how and/or why the so called 'Cambrian Explosion' occurred. One aspect of this evolutionary significant event remains unexplained: how did so many different animal lineages relatively synchronously evolve the ability to biomineralize? The project aims to test the hypothesis that autophagy ('self eating') is involved in the process of biomineralization across a phylogenetically wide range of metazoans. To address this issue, a novel shell regeneration assay and experimental ...