Hox genes and their relatives are involved in several developmental processes in diverse animals, but when did they first arise? The genome sequence of the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica shows ...

The hallmark expression of Hox genes along anterior–posterior body regions has motivated many fruitful molecular studies into how animal bodies are patterned, but 40 years of research into Hox ...

“It's going to advance questions that many people in evolutionary developmental biology are asking.” “[This was] striking, because we know that the Hox cluster is very conservative in terms of gene ...

In order for the pair of wings and the pair of halteres (as well as all other parts of the fly) to develop properly, the fly's suite of Hox genes must be expressed in a precise way and at precise ...

In particular, biologists have suspected that the insects' progression to six legs, and the evolution and modification of arthropod appendages in general, are driven by changes in Hox gene activity.

LncRNAs and circRNAs are key regulators of gene expression, influencing disease mechanisms and offering potential as ...

This process is dictated largely by Hox genes, Thomas Stewart, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State, told Live Science.