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Pax 6: Mastering Eye Morphogenesis and Eye Evolution

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Journal Trends Genet
Specialty Genetics
Date 1999 Aug 26
PMID 10461206
Citations 188
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Abstract

Pax 6 genes from various animal phyla are capable of inducing ectopic eye development, indicating that Pax 6 is a master control gene for eye morphogenesis. It is proposed that the various eye-types found in metazoa are derived from a common prototype, monophyletically, by a mechanism called intercalary evolution.

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