Unwinding Limb Development.

Villar, Diego; Odom, Duncan T · Cell · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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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.

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