Surprising flexibility in a conserved Hox transcription factor over 550 million years of evolution.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 04, 2010

Authors

Alison Heffer1, Jeffrey W Shultz, Leslie Pick

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Entomology and Program in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

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