Molting polychaete jaws - Ecdysozoans are not the only molting animals

Hannelore Paxton*

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    Abstract

    Jaw shedding and replacement of Diopatra aciculata (Onuphidae, Eunicida), by the same process as arthropod molting, involving apolysis and ecdysis, is described here. These observations suggest that molting has either evolved convergently in eunicidan polychaetes and ecdysozoans or it was present in the last ecdysozoan/ lophotrochozoan common ancestor and thus may not represent a synapomorphy of the ecdysozoans.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)337-340
    Number of pages4
    JournalEvolution and Development
    Volume7
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2005

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