El análisis transcriptómico de los dígitos aviares revela identidades de dígitos conservados y derivados en aves

Zhe Wang1, Rebecca L Young, Huiling Xue

  • 1Yale Systems Biology Institute, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA.

Nature
|September 6, 2011
PubMed
Resumen

Los datos transcriptómicos revelan la identidad del dígito del ala de las aves, lo que sugiere que el primer dígito del ala evolucionó desde la posición 1, no 2. Este estudio aclara las vías evolutivas para el desarrollo de las extremidades de las aves.

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