Vertebrate Axial and Appendicular Patterning: The Early Development of Paired Appendages |
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Authors: | COATES, MICHAEL I. COHN, MARTIN J. |
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Affiliation: | *Department of Biology, University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT UK School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AJ UK |
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Abstract: | Determination of paired fin or limb number, identity and positionare key issues in vertebrate development and evolution. Phylogeniesincluding fossil data show that paired appendages are uniqueto jawed vertebrates and their immediate ancestry; that suchfins evolved first as a single pair in an anterior location;that appendicular endoskeletons are primitively AP asymmetric;and that pectoral and pelvic fins primitively differ. It isconjectured that Hox gene expression patterns along the lateralplate mesoderm establish boundaries that contribute to localisationof AP levels at which signals initiate outgrowth from the bodywall. Such regionalisation may be regulated independently ofthat in the paraxial mesoderm and axial skeleton. When combinedwith current hypotheses of Hox gene phylogenetic and functionaldiversity, these data suggest a new model of fin/limb developmentalevolution. This coordinates body wall outgrowth regions withprimitive boundaries established in the gut, and the fundamentalnon-equivalence of pectoral and pelvic structures. |
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