BIOL4397 - Evolution of Development

 Lecture 18 - The Evolution of Coding Sequences

Slides [pdf]

Required Reading

  • Ronshaugen M, et al (2002) Hox protein mutation and macroevolution of the insect body plan. Nature 415: 914-7. [pdf]

Recommended Reading
  • Gellon G & McGinnis W (1998) Shaping animal body plans in development and evolution by modulation of Hox expression patterns. BioEssays 20: 116-125. [pdf]

  • Galant R & Carroll SB (2002) Evolution of a transcriptional repression domain in an insect Hox protein. Nature 415: 910-3. [pdf]

  • Vervoort M (2002) Functional evolution of Hox proteins in arthropods. BioEssays 24: 775-9. [pdf]