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Bilateria
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Bilateria [‚bī·lə′tir·ē·ə]
(zoology)
A major division of the animal kingdom embracing all forms with bilateral symmetry.


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The study determined that Earth may have given rise to two distinct groups of animals: bilaterians - animals with bilateral symmetry, like humans - and non-bilaterians, which include corals, jelly fish, hydra, unusual, often poisonous, creatures known as cubozoans, and other organisms.
About 70% of eye genes are commonly expressed in vertebrates and octopus, and 97% of these are estimated to have occurred in the ancestral bilaterian.
As a member of the Lophotrochozoa, the least investigated bilaterian superphylum (Adoutte et al.
 
 
 
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