A relative shift in cloacal location repositions external genitalia in amniote evolution

Patrick Tschopp, Emma Sherratt, Thomas J. Sanger, Anna C. Groner, Ariel C. Aspiras, Jimmy K. Hu, Olivier Pourquié, Jérôme Gros () and Clifford J. Tabin ()
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Patrick Tschopp: Harvard Medical School
Emma Sherratt: Harvard University
Thomas J. Sanger: Harvard University
Anna C. Groner: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ariel C. Aspiras: Harvard Medical School
Jimmy K. Hu: Harvard Medical School
Olivier Pourquié: Harvard Medical School
Jérôme Gros: Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
Clifford J. Tabin: Harvard Medical School

Nature, 2014, vol. 516, issue 7531, 391-394

Abstract: It has been known for some time that limbs share at least some of their molecular patterning mechanism with external genitalia; here, this connection is examined in a variety of species, revealing that once-shared developmental trajectories could help to explain the observed patterning similarities.

Date: 2014
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