Evolution: The deep genetic roots of tetrapod-specific traits

Tetsuya Nakamura¹, Igor Schneider², Neil H Shubin³

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¹ Department of Genetics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. Electronic address: nakamura@dls.rutgers.edu.
² Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: ischneider@uchicago.edu.
³ Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: nshubin@uchicago.edu.

PMID: 34033765
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.096

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Evolution: The deep genetic roots of tetrapod-specific traits

Tetsuya Nakamura et al. Curr Biol. 2021.

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. 2021 May 24;31(10):R467-R469.

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.096.

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Tetsuya Nakamura¹, Igor Schneider², Neil H Shubin³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. Electronic address: nakamura@dls.rutgers.edu.
² Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: ischneider@uchicago.edu.
³ Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: nshubin@uchicago.edu.

PMID: 34033765
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.096

Abstract

Based on embryology and comparative genomics, recent studies reveal that genetic pathways and gene regulatory elements responsible for the invasion of land by tetrapod ancestors are deeply conserved in fish.

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