Embryo, larval, and juvenile staging of Lytechinus pictus from fertilization through sexual maturation.
Katherine T NesbitAmro HamdounPublished in: Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2020)
This staging scheme lays a foundation for future studies in L. pictus, which share many of the attractive features of other urchins but have the key advantage of rapid development to sexual maturation. This is significant for multigenerational and genetic studies newly enabled by CRISPR-CAS mediated gene editing.