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Elife
2014 Mar 12;3:e02515. doi: 10.7554/eLife.02515.
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The Hox-TALE has been wagging for a long time.
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Hox and TALE proteins interact in a sea anemone, just as they do in flies and mice, indicating that the Hox-TALE system originated very early in animal evolution.
Figure 1. The starlet sea anemone.The cnidarians, such as the starlet sea anemone (N. vectensis) shown here, have a body form that is very different to the bilaterally symmetrical form found in most other animals. Anemones have a mouth surrounded by tentacles at one end and a foot that attaches to the substrate at the other. Hudry et al. have shown that, despite such a difference in general body form, the Hox-TALE system that operates in the development of cnidarians functions in a similar fashion to the Hox-TALE system of flies and mice.
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