GEO DataSets

(Submitter supplied) The concept of germ layers has been one of the foremost organizing principles in developmental biology, classification, systematics and evolution for 150 years. Of the three germ layers, the mesoderm is found in bilaterian animals but is absent in species in the phyla Cnidaria and Ctenophora, which has been taken as evidence that the mesoderm was the final germ layer to evolve. The origin of the ectoderm and endoderm germ layers, however, remains unclear, with models supporting the antecedence of each as well as a simultaneous origin. more...

Organism:

Caenorhabditis elegans

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL13657

184 Samples

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