Synthetic chemicals and plastics are useful and indispensable in our lives. On the other hand, the world is grappling with plastic pollution—clogging ...

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the brain and skull during embryogenesis—a link with profound implications for ...

Hox genes are interesting “because they’re highly conserved, occurring in many species, from flies to humans,” says Kawaguchi. “They’re involved in determining the body’s makeup.” Now, Cerbus, ...

Have you ever gazed at a starfish gliding across the ocean floor and thought, “That’s basically my distant cousin!”? Probably ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. The manuscript of He et al. compares the roles of Hox/Gbx genes ...

Phylogenetic analyses. To determine the cluster affiliation of the isolated partial Hox genes, we performed a combined NJ-phylogenetic tree for anterior (Hox 1-3), medial (Hox 4-8) and posterior (Hox ...

Other, related Hox genes may define those same properties for the small intestine. The researchers also illuminated the role of a downstream signaling pathway called TGF beta, which is controlled by ...

The Hox genes have proven to be essential actors in determining structures along the antero-posterior axis in bilaterians, but discovering the developmental route - from DNA to morphology - is a ...

Abstract. HOX genes are a highly conserved subset of genes that encode for transcription factors critical for stem cell (SC) function and embryonic development. Several HOX genes have also been ...