Hoxful Monsters

What makes Sean carroll’s articles and Books so unique and impressive? One answer to that would be some brilliant writing involved in them,which makes readers understand the content easily.Today we will look back into his article from Current Biology ,published on 20 January 1999 describing role of Ultrabithorax (Ubx) in Butterfly wings.
Hox genes control many features like segment morphology, appendage number(Arthropods) and pattern,axial morphology and limb pattern (vertebrates) ,which played significant role in modifications to their respective body plans during evolution.The morphological and functional evolution of appendages has played a …

Evolution is not always about inventing new proteins but using the same old proteins in a different ways to attain a new function and there by modifying the body plan ,leading to development of new species.Drosophila fushi tarazu serves as a great example for evolution in action and this was demonstrated by Ulrike Lohr et al in 2001 through their current biology article.This happens to be my one of all time favorite work on Hox genes as it displays gradual change in gene function during the course of …

To begin the new section “Classics”,where i discuss some outstanding papers in the field .we will look into an article from Weatherbee et al published in genes and dev in 1998.This article comes the lab of Sean carroll ,considered to be temple of evo devo, forms one reason for selecting this article as a starter for this section .The other reason being this kind of work is pretty close to my heart because my first experience with fruit flies and research world came from a project on similar lines.I …