Grup de Genòmica, Bioinformàtica i Evolució, Departament de Genètica i Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain.
Development. 2010 Feb;137(4):531-9. doi: 10.1242/dev.045229.
Most studies of pattern formation and morphogenesis in metazoans focus on a small number of model species, despite the fact that information about a wide range of species and developmental stages has accumulated in recent years. By contrast, this article attempts to use this broad knowledge base to arrive at a classification of developmental types through which metazoan body plans are generated. This classification scheme pays particular attention to the diverse ways by which cell signalling and morphogenetic movements depend on each other, and leads to several testable hypotheses regarding morphological variation within and between species, as well as metazoan evolution.
大多数后生动物形态发生和模式形成的研究都集中在少数几个模式物种上，尽管近年来已经积累了大量关于广泛物种和发育阶段的信息。相比之下，本文试图利用这个广泛的知识库，通过它来对后生动物身体计划产生的发育类型进行分类。这个分类方案特别关注细胞信号和形态发生运动相互依赖的多种方式，并且针对物种内和物种间形态变异以及后生动物进化提出了一些可检验的假说。
