Unraveling the heritage of lost traits.

Alexa Sadier Karen E Sears Molly A Albecker

Published in: Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution (2021)

We synthesize ontogenetic work spanning the past century that show evolutionarily lost structures are rarely entirely absent from earlier developmental stages. We discuss morphological and genetic insights from developmental studies reveal about the evolution of trait loss and regain.

Keyphrases

genome wide
dna methylation
copy number
high resolution
single cell
case control
gene expression
gastric bypass
mass spectrometry