Homeobox genes have some quirky features: they huddle together and tend to be expressed in the order that they appear in their cluster. A new cluster, specific to reproductive development, has now been discovered.
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Spitz, F., Duboule, D. Reproduction in clusters. Nature 434, 715–716 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/434715a
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