Developing Fish Spines (IMAGE)

Duke University

Developing Fish Spines

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A single-letter DNA change in a gene that lays down the pattern for a developing spine in zebrafish caused mutant fish to develop backbones that resemble ancestral fish (bottom image).

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Michel Bagnat Lab, Duke University

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