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Figure 1: Evolutionary conservation of the Hox gene clusters in zebrafish, pufferfish, mouse and Amphioxus.

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Meyer, A. Hox gene variation and evolution. Nature 391, 227–228 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/34530

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