It is more than a decade since the discovery that vertebrate Hox genes are arranged and expressed in the same order as the body parts they help to produce. New work looks at how this is achieved in fingers and toes.
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Zeller, R., Deschamps, J. First come, first served. Nature 420, 138–139 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/420138a
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