The ancestry of segmentation.
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.
Patel
Nipam H
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Department of Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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