Snail Shell Coiling Programmed by Protein Patterning (IMAGE)

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Snail Shell Coiling Programmed by Protein Patterning

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Snail shells coil in response to a lopsided protein gradient across their shell mantles, finds research in BioMed Central's open-access journal EvoDevo.

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Keisuke Shimizu, Minoru Iijima, Davin HE Setiamarga, Isao Sarashina, Tetsuhiro Kudoh, Takahiro Asami, Edi Gittenberger and Kazuyoshi Endo

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