Acorn Worm <i>Saccoglossus kowalevskii</i> (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Acorn Worm <i>Saccoglossus kowalevskii</i>

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The acorn worm Saccoglossus kowalevskii is common in brackish, shallow water on the Atlantic coast. Its newly sequenced genome is telling biologists about the genes responsible for pharyngeal gills in the hemichordates and chordate structures such as the pharynx, which in humans includes the jaws, tongue, voicebox and various glands and muscles between the mouth and throat.

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Chris Lowe, Stanford University

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