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Fossils, genes and the evolution of animal limbs

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  • Neil Shubin

    (University of Pennsylvania
    Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to N.S.)

  • Cliff Tabin

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Sean Carroll

    (Sean Carroll is at the HHMI and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin)

Abstract

The morphological and functional evolution of appendages has played a crucial role in the adaptive radiation of tetrapods, arthropods and winged insects. The origin and diversification of fins, wings and other structures, long a focus of palaeontology, can now be approached through developmental genetics. Modifications of appendage number and architecture in each phylum are correlated with regulatory changes in specific patterning genes. Although their respective evolutionary histories are unique, vertebrate, insect and other animal appendages are organized by a similar genetic regulatory system that may have been established in a common ancestor.

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  • Neil Shubin & Cliff Tabin & Sean Carroll, 1997. "Fossils, genes and the evolution of animal limbs," Nature, Nature, vol. 388(6643), pages 639-648, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:388:y:1997:i:6643:d:10.1038_41710
    DOI: 10.1038/41710
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