Echinox

Team Leader

Laurent Formery

Presentation

In the echinox team, we use several echinoderm species (sea urchins, sea cucumbers) as natural experiments on body plans to investigate the developmental mechanisms of animal evolution.

Learn more about our research : https://www.echinox.org

Body plan evolution in echinoderms

Bilateral to pentaradial symmetry transition

Genetic control of adult body plan development