title: Unwinding Limb Development.
abstract: The molecular mechanisms underpinning vertebrate body plan evolution are beginning to be unravelled. In this issue of Cell, Kvon et al. spectacularly demonstrate how transplanting snake-specific genetic changes found uniquely in serpent enhancers leads to limb loss in mice.
authors: University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK.
authors: Diego
authors: D
authors: Villar
authors: University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK. Electronic address: duncan.odom@cruk.cam.ac.uk.
authors: Duncan T
authors: DT
authors: Odom
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005121:Extremities; D014714:Vertebrates