The Ancestry of Segmentation

Overview

Journal Dev Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialties Cell Biology
Reproductive Medicine

Date 2003 Jul 11

PMID 12852844

Citations 5

Authors

Nipam H Patel

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Abstract

Recent studies of segmentation in the spider suggest that the ancestral vertebrate and arthropod segmentation mechanisms utilized the Notch signaling pathway and bolster the argument that segmentation is an ancestral feature of all bilaterians.

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