Establishment, conservation, and innovation of dorsal determination mechanisms during the evolution of vertebrate paired appendages
Michael Brent Hawkins, Sofía Zdral, Silvia Naranjo, Miguel Juliá, Manuel Sánchez‐Martín, Jacob M. Daane, Nicolás Cumplido, Dávid Jandzík, Daniel Meulemans Medeiros, Sarah K. McMenamin, Matthew P. Harris, Juan J. Tena, María A. Ros
The paper identifies ancestral dorsal-ventral patterning mechanisms in fish fins and shows evolutionary innovations in their regulation.
bioRxiv · Jul 2, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology