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Epigenetic integration of the developing brain and face.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists - 1 Oct 2011
Parsons Trish E, Schmidt Eric J, Boughner Julia C, Jamniczky Heather A, Marcucio Ralph S, Hallgrímsson Benedikt
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The integration of the brain and face and to what extent this relationship constrains or enables evolutionary change in the craniofacial complex is an issue of long-standing interest in vertebrate evolution. To investigate brain-face integration, we studied the covariation between the forebrain and midface at gestational days 10-10.5 in four strains of laboratory mice. We found that phenotypic variation in the...
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