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 ...

Technological advances, improved computational methods and the ever-decreasing cost of sequencing enabled the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), which was launched in 2017, to pursue the ambitious ...

Segmentation of the vertebrate body is first established during embryogenesis by the periodic formation of pairs of somites — for example, every 120 minutes in mouse, 90 minutes in chicken and 3 ...