Blastopore fate (mouth or anus)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Comparative Anatomy subtree

Embryonic blastopore = first opening of gastrulation; in protostomes becomes mouth, in deuterostomes becomes anus; oldest synapomorphy of bilaterian phylogeny; Hyman 1940 invertebrate treatise.

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