JEZ-B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

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We publish exciting stories in evo-devo! Established 1904. Editor-in-Chief: Ehab Abouheif. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15525015

📝New Publication🧪 Congratulations to team members Finn McHale and Peter Holland for their paper exploring the evolution of duplicated Hox Gene clusters in land snails and slugs, showing similar retention patterns following WGD in vertebrates and invertebrates🐌 @jezb1904.bsky.social shorturl.at/AM5AB

Evolution of Duplicated Hox Gene Clusters in Land Snails and Slugs

Molluscs of the order Stylommatophora underwent an ancient genome duplication. We show that stylommatophoran snails and slugs have two broken and incomplete Hox gene clusters; HoxA generally has 9 ge...

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