Sequencing and analysis of the gastrula transcriptome of the brittle star Ophiocoma wendtii

Table 4 Conservation of genes between Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and Ophiocoma wendtii

		% conserved in O. wendtii
S. purpuratus transcriptome		55
Early gastrula GRN		65
Endoderm		53
	Veg2 endoderm	70
	Veg1 endoderm	20
Primary mesenchyme		86
Non-skeletogenic mesenchyme		57
	Secondary mesenchyme	64
	Small micromeres	33
Oral ectoderm		67
Aboral ectoderm		58

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