Disappearance of Temporal Collinearity in Vertebrates and Its Eventual Reappearance

It was observed that a cluster of ordered genes (Hox1, Hox2, Hox3…) in the genome are activated in the ontogenetic units (1, 2, 3 …) of an embryo along the Anterior/Posterior axis following the same order of the Hox genes. This Spatial Collinearity (SC) is very strange since it correlates events of...

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Main Author: Spyros Papageorgiou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-10-01
Series:Biology
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/10/10/1018