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Beyond the genes there are switches

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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 Scientific American
Article reads: The evolutionary implications of the modular regulation of body-patterning genes are profound. In theory, mutations in enhancers would allow individual body traits to be selectively modified without changing genes or proteins themselves. And in the past few years, direct evidence has emerged that this is frequently how the evolution of various body […]

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