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Nature 399, 730-731 (24 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21530

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Hox clusters:  Size doesn't matter

Mark Q. Martindale1 & Matthew J. Kourakis2

Molecular biology has had a huge effect on our ability to understand the evolution of biological diversity. As we learn more about how embryos develop at the molecular level, we hope to be able to reconstruct the transitions in developmental programmes that lead to new forms.

  1. Mark Q. Martindale is at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA.
    e-mail: Email: mqmartin@hawaii.edu
  2. Matthew J. Kourakis is in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
    e-mail: Email: kour@midway.uchicago.edu