Deuterostome / protostome split

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Comparative Anatomy subtree

Grobben 1908: bilaterian split based on blastopore fate; protostome (mouth-first: arthropod / mollusc / annelid) vs deuterostome (anus-first: echinoderm / chordate); supported by 18S-rRNA + Hox cluster.

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