BS Dextral & Sinistral Morphs (IMAGE)

Shinshu University

BS Dextral & Sinistral Morphs

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The dextral (clockwise-coiled, left) and sinistral (counterclockwise-coiled, right) morphs of a land snail Bradybaena similaris are left-right reversed in internal visceral structure as well as coiling direction. Defect of the diaph b gene expression results in production of egg masses from which both the dextral and sinistral siblings hatch.

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Takahiro Asami, Shinshu University

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