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A Kiss of Deep Homology: Partial Convergence in the Genomic Basis of Hypertrophied Lips in Cichlid Fish and Human Cleft Lip.
Genome biology and evolution - 5 May 2023
Masonick Paul, Meyer Axel, Darrin Hulsey Christopher
Abstract excerpt
The genomic loci generating both adaptive and maladaptive variation could be surprisingly predictable in deeply homologous vertebrate structures like the lips. Variation in highly conserved vertebrate traits such as the jaws and teeth in organisms as evolutionarily disparate as teleost fishes and mammals is known to be structured by the same genes. Likewise, hypertrophied lips that have evolved repeatedly in...
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