Unwinding Limb Development.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2016.10.007.
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Abstract
The molecular mechanisms underpinning vertebrate body plan evolution are beginning to be unravelled. In this issue of Cell, Kvon et al. spectacularly demonstrate how transplanting snake-specific genetic changes found uniquely in serpent enhancers leads to limb loss in mice.
Medical subject headings
- Extremities
- Vertebrates