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Trends Genet 2024 Mar 01;403:207-208. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2024.01.008.
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A sea star is only a head.

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Where are the front and back ends in a sea star? Formery et al. recently tackled this long-standing mystery using state-of-the-art molecular tools, leading them to suggest that a sea star may be constructed from components that, in other animals, would constitute only the head.

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