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- Title
Specification of jaw subdivisions by Dlx genes.
- Authors
Depew, Michael J; Lufkin, Thomas; Rubenstein, John L R
- Abstract
The success of vertebrates was due in part to the acquisition and modification of jaws. Jaws are principally derived from the branchial arches, embryonic structures that exhibit proximodistal polarity. To investigate the mechanisms that specify the identity of skeletal elements within the arches, we examined mice lacking expression of Dlx5 and Dlx6, linked homeobox genes expressed distally but not proximally within the arches. Dlx5/6-/- mutants exhibit a homeotic transformation of lower jaws to upper jaws. We suggest that nested Dlx expression in the arches patterns their proximodistal axes. Evolutionary acquisition and subsequent refinement of jaws may have been dependent on modification of Dlx expression.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2002, Vol 298, Issue 5592, p381
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1075703