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Evolution of threespine stickleback dorsal spines via hoxdb gene regulation
Carlos Manuel Herrera-Castillo, Tanja Brechbühl, Antoine Fages…·Daniel Berner
This study identifies cis-regulatory changes in the hoxdb gene cluster as the mechanism underlying parallel evolution of dorsal spine reduction in threespine stickleback fish.
DOI 10.1101/2025.08.04.667941