Bar codes with special correlations like those of the Barker codes

Hox code in embryos of Chinese soft-shel

Hox code in embryos of Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis correlates with the evolutionary innovation in the turtle

✍ Yoshie Kawashima Ohya; Shigehiro Kuraku; Shigeru Kuratani 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 549 KB

Turtles have the most unusual body plan of the amniotes, with a dorsal shell consisting of modified ribs. Because this morphological change in the ribs can be described as an axial-level specific alteration, the evolution of the turtle carapace should depend on changes in the Hox code. To identify t