Evolution of threespine stickleback dorsal spines via hoxdb gene regulation
Carlos Manuel Herrera-Castillo, Tanja Brechbühl, Antoine Fages, Andrew D. C. MacColl, Laura L. Dean, Patrick Tschopp, 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.
bioRxiv · Aug 4, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology