
For over a century, the scientific understanding of matrotrophy of an embryo developing inside a mom’s body has come from vertebrates. This process was thought to be infrequent among the other 33 or so major groups or phyla of animals. But a new major study reports that matrotrophy has evolved in at least 21 of 34 animal phyla.
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