Snail shell coiling programmed by protein patterning

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

Snail shells coil in response to an lopsided protein gradient across their shell mantles, finds research in BioMed Central’s open access journal EvoDevo. In contrast the shell mantle of...

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