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A novel gene family controls species-specific morphological traits in Hydra.

PLoS biology - 18 Nov 2008

Khalturin Konstantin, Anton-Erxleben Friederike, Sassmann Sylvia, Wittlieb Jörg, Hemmrich Georg, Bosch Thomas C G

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Understanding the molecular events that underlie the evolution of morphological diversity is a major challenge in biology. Here, to identify genes whose expression correlates with species-specific morphologies, we compared transcriptomes of two closely related Hydra species. We find that species-specific differences in tentacle formation correlate with expression of a taxonomically restricted gene encoding a...

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PMID: 19018660
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060278
PMCID: PMC2586386

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