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Developmental genetics: vertebrates and insects see eye to eye
1The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK. andrew.jarman@ed.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|December 15, 2000
Abstract:
The results of a number of recent studies indicate that eye development in insects and vertebrates may have more features in common than hitherto suspected. The results support the possibility that insect and vertebrate eyes evolved from a complex ancestral organ.