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Université de Genève

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To develop their digits, ancestral tetrapods recycled an ancient region of the genome that was initially active in the formation of the fish cloaca. This is illustrated here by the expression of a Hox architect gene in the cloaca of the zebrafish (black dot).

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© Brent Hawkins, Harvard

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