How vertebrates got their bite

Thomas F Schilling; Pierre Le Pabic

doi:10.7554/eLife.84118

How vertebrates got their bite

Elife. 2022 Nov 15:11:e84118. doi: 10.7554/eLife.84118.

Authors

Thomas F Schilling¹, Pierre Le Pabic²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States.
² Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, United States.

Abstract

A newly discovered enhancer region may have allowed vertebrates to evolve the ability to open and close their jaws.

Keywords: cis-regulatory element; developmental biology; enhancer deletion; evolution; evolutionary biology; gnathostome; jaw joint; nkx3.2; zebrafish.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution
Jaw*
Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Vertebrates* / genetics

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