Developmental genetic mechanisms of evolutionary tooth loss in cypriniform fishes

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Summary

Analysis of orthologous genes in the Japanese medaka and a catfish suggests that expression was lost in cypriniforms, rather than gained in Astyanax, and hypothesize that a loss of Fgf signaling to oral epithelium was associated with cyPRiniform tooth loss.

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2006-08-15
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Biology, Zebrafish, Oryzias, Genetics, Phenocopy

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