Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are ...

Do their ideas change once they know this? The echinoderms they are going to see in the video are sea stars. Ask students to draw a sea star on a piece of notebook paper and label any parts that ...

Wanting to learn more about how these pathways differed among echinoderms, the researchers searched the human, sea urchin, and sea star genomes for an OSC called lanosterol synthase (LSS), which is ...

Like many other echinoderms, brittle stars can regenerate their limbs following amputation. 7 “The brittle star can regenerate the arm in just a month, which is very, very fast,” said Parey. In ...

(c) for food capture. Class Crinoidea - sea lilies. - has the most ancestral body organization of all living echinoderms. - possess pentaradial symmetry with the 10 arms, which it uses to swim. - the ...