Developmental evolution: going beyond the 'just so'.
Two new protocols for infecting non-mammalian embryos with viruses, together with RNA inhibition, have provided evolutionary developmental biologists with the tools to study the effects of manipulating gene activity in a wide range of species, allowing them to test hypotheses rather than rely on inference from similarity.
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Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-7614, USA. ggibson@unity.ncsu.edu
D000818:Animals; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000235:genetics; D005075:Biological Evolution; D047108:Embryonic Development; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D008957:Models, Genetic