Poster Presentation 2

[P-174] Do echinoderm embryos have more derived developmental programs than chordates? —A search for “derivedness index” from transcriptomic data

^○Jason Cheok Kuan Leong¹, Yongxin Li², Yandong Ren², Akihito Omori³, Cynthia Bradham⁴, Brian Livingston⁵, Masahiro Uesaka⁶, Robert Cameron⁷, Gary Wessel⁸, Mariko Kondo¹, Luonan Chen^1,9, Wen Wang^2,9, Naoki Irie¹ (1.Dept. Biol. Sci., Univ. of Tokyo, 2.State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3.Sado Marine Biological Station, Faculty of Sci, Niigata Univ, 4.Dept of Biol, Boston Univ, 5.Dept of Biol Sci, California State Univ, 6.RIKEN, 7.Div of Biol and Biol Eng, Caltech, 8.Dept of Mol and Cell Biol and Biochem, Brown Univ, 9.Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Keywords:Evolutionary developmental biology; Echinoderm; Derivedness