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SUBMITTER: Grocott T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7774904 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grocott Timothy T Lozano-Velasco Estefania E Mok Gi Fay GF Münsterberg Andrea E AE
Development (Cambridge, England) 20201223 24
Understanding how complex organ systems are assembled from simple embryonic tissues is a major challenge. Across the animal kingdom a great diversity of visual organs are initiated by a 'master control gene' called <i>Pax6</i>, which is both necessary and sufficient for eye development. Yet precisely how <i>Pax6</i> achieves this deeply homologous function is poorly understood. Using the chick as a model organism, we show that vertebrate <i>Pax6</i> interacts with a pair of morphogen-coding gene ...[more]