All vertebrate embryos follow a common developmental path due to their common ancestry. All have a set of very similar genes (the homeobox genes) that define their basic body plan. As they grow ...

Some are large and others much smaller. But they all have a spine which makes them vertebrates, just like you! Have a look at these three animals. Which one is the odd one out to you? Write down ...

Model vertebrates are extensively studied non-human vertebrates (species with a notochord, or vertebral column) chosen for the ease of investigating particular biological phenomena in areas such ...

Jawed vertebrates use V(D)J recombination of immunoglobulin ... This shared characteristic suggests that all three receptor types diverged from a common ancestral heterodimeric receptor.