In vertebrates, the development of the precursor to an ... However, later in the cascades of nearly all insects and vertebrates, the Hox genes play a role in identifying each segment and defining ...

Unlike their Drosophila counterparts, vertebrate proneural ... controlled during development. We will begin this review by focusing on the control of proneural genes by prepattern genes and ...

All vertebrate ... genes) that define their basic body plan. As they grow, the differences that will distinguish the embryos as adults become more and more apparent. The study of this development ...

This finding proves for the first time that vertebrates have more than one type of epigenetic DNA mark and sheds new light on ...