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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 32, Number 2, pages 193-196 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2021_2_193

CUTTING EDGE SCIENCE REVEALS THE SECRETS OF CHIROMORPHOGENESIS IN SNAILS

Reiko Kuroda^*

^* Frontier Research Institute, Chubu University, 1200 Matsumoto-cho, Kasugai, Aichi, 487-8501, Japan
E-mail: rkuroda@isc.chubu.ac.jp
ORCID: 0000-0002-0268-7729

Abstract: Chiromorphology is a field of research focusing on the molecular origins and the molecular mechanisms that lead to chiral macroscopic objects and phenomena. Here we describe twenty years of our chiromorphology research on the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis to discover symmetry breaking during chiromorphogenesis, to create situs inversus snails mechanically, to identify the single gene that determines body handedness, and to create situs inversus snails by using the cutting-edge science of CRISPR genome editing of the candidate gene.

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