Amphioxus (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Amphioxus

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The marine invertebrate known as the lancelet, or amphioxus, has tentacle-like strands called oral cirri that strain phytoplankton out of the water.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute

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