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Course Discription |
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This course describes the tool kit genes that determine the anterior- posterior and dorsal- ventral body axes during the early embryo development. Then, it elucidates the effect of tool kit genes in the growth and differentiation of different body organs. The course also explains the mechanisms underlying the evolution of expression patterns of tool kit genes in different organisms and demonstrates how these patterns diverged from the expression patterns in Drosophila. Moreover, the course elucidates the processes underlying the evolution of morphological novelties through changes in the regulation of developmental genes expression. Finally, the course explains the effect of environmental cues in producing different phenotypes from the same genotype. |