Short germ insects utilize both the ancestral and derived mode of Polycomb group-mediated epigenetic silencing of Hox genes
In insect species that undergo long germ segmentation, such as Drosophila, all segments are specified simultaneously at the early blastoderm stage. As embryogenesis progresses, the expression boundaries of Hox genes are established by repression of gap genes, which is subsequently replaced by Polyco...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Company of Biologists
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Biology Open |
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| Online Access: | http://bio.biologists.org/content/4/6/702 |