Teeth are found in almost all vertebrates, and they therefore provide a general paradigm for
the study of epithelial organ development and evolution. Here, we review the developmental …

Since its initial discovery in a Drosophila mutagenesis screen, the Hedgehog pathway has
been revealed to be instrumental in the proper development of the vertebrate face …

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good." Richard Dawkins, TLS Page 2 Page 3 WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE Jerry Coyne is a …

The genes of cellular cooperation that evolved with multicellularity about a billion years ago
are the same genes that malfunction to cause cancer. We hypothesize that cancer is an …

The single replacement from milk teeth to permanent teeth makes mammalian teeth different
from teeth of most nonmammalian vertebrates and other epithelial organs such as hair and …

Complex worker caste systems have contributed to the evolutionary success of advanced
ant societies; however, little is known about the developmental processes underlying their …

The major goal of ecological evolutionary developmental biology, also known as “eco-evo-
devo,” is to uncover the rules that underlie the interactions between an organism's …

Dollo's Law, the idea that the loss of complex features in evolution is irreversible, is a
popular concept in evolutionary biology. Here we review how application of recent …

Since their recruitment in the oral cavity, approximately 450 million years ago, teeth have
been subjected to strong selective constraints due to the crucial role that they play in species …

The Silkie chicken has been a model of melanoctye precursor and neural crest cell
migration and proliferation in the developing embryo due to its extensive hyperpigmentation …