Article
Antagonism of LIN-17/Frizzled and LIN-18/Ryk in nematode vulva induction reveals evolutionary alterations in core developmental pathways.
PLoS biology - 1 Jul 2011
Wang Xiaoyue, Sommer Ralf J
Abstract excerpt
Most diversity in animals and plants results from the modification of already existing structures. Many organ systems, for example, are permanently modified during evolution to create developmental and morphological diversity, but little is known about the evolution of the underlying developmental mechanisms. The theory of developmental systems drift proposes that the development of conserved morphological...
Topics
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Female
- Helminth Proteins
- Larva
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional