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Cnidarians layer up

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A focus on sea anemones throws the classic concept of germ layer homology on its head, as cnidarians are found to possess the gene expression programmes for three, rather than two, germ layers.

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Fig. 1: A schematic representation of bilaterian and cnidarian germ layers.

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