A gathering of minds: expanding understanding of the origins of biological diversity and the evolution of developmental mechanisms

Abstract

Abstract This paper is a short report on the 2012 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. Charleston, South Carolina, USA. 3-7 January 2012 (abstracts freely available at http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2012/).

Keywords

• development
• evolution
• larval
• lophotrochozoa
• deuterostome
• vertebrate
• cnidarian
• ctenophore
• nematode
• meeting