Mouse Digits, Fish Fins (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Mouse Digits, Fish Fins

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Markers of the wrists and digits in the limb of a mouse (left) are present in fish and demarcate the fin rays (right). The wrist and digits of tetrapods are the cellular and genetic equivalents of the fin rays of fish.

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Shubin laboratory

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