Figure 1: Hox clusters, Hox genes and Hox function. The mechanisms by which the Hox genes control, and are controlled in, normal vertebrate development occur according to three basic precepts.

In most bilateral animals, the Hox-cluster genes encode a group of conserved transcription factors that are responsible for defining axial identity on the anterior–posterior (A–P) axis.

In order for the pair of wings and the pair of halteres (as well as all other parts of the fly) to develop properly, the fly's suite of Hox genes must be expressed in a precise way and at precise ...

"Our study demonstrates unprecedented roles for two Hox genes," said Armin Moczek, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology and co-author on the paper with ...

Every animal, from an ant to a human, contains in their genome pieces of DNA called Hox genes. Architects of the body, these genes are keepers of the body's blueprints; they dictate how embryos grown ...

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

Hox genes are master body-building genes that specify where an animal's head, tail and everything in between should go. There's even a special Hox gene program that directs the development of ...

Researchers at New York University have created artificial Hox genes—which plan and direct where cells go to develop tissues or organs—using new synthetic DNA technology and genomic engineering in ...

Continue reading "There's a tight connection between the vertebrae and Hox genes," explains biophysicist Rory Cerbus, a member of Kyogo Kawaguchi's team. "We speculated that the genes, or ...

Turns out this is a wonder of gene regulation. Miura and his colleagues were expecting the activity of Hox genes to be different in the anterior and posterior of a worm. They found out that it is ...

"Our study demonstrates unprecedented roles for two Hox genes," said Armin Moczek, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology and co-author on the paper with ...