Modern Genetics Confirm Ancient Relationship Between Fins and Hands

Monday, December 22, 2014 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Efforts to connect the evolutionary transition from fish fins to wrist and fingers with the genetic machinery for this adaptation have fallen short because they focused on the wrong fish. Now, researchers describe the genetic machinery for autopod assembly in a non-model fish, the spotted gar.

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