title: Standing Up for Sticklebacks.
abstract: The morphology of the vertebrate skeleton exhibits tremendous plasticity in evolution, allowing adaptation to a wide variety of ecological niches and lifestyles. Indjeian et al. now uncover how the cis regulation of a gene controls skeletal variation in fish and might have contributed to the evolution of bipedalism in humans.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and Department of Pathology, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: pourquie@genetics.med.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pourquié
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D055431:Growth Differentiation Factor 6 / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D012863:Skeleton / Q000502:physiology*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D055431:Growth Differentiation Factor 6