The development of the tetrapod limb depends on complex cascades of gene expression. In her Perspective, Deschamps reports on a new study ( ZAikAiny et al.) that dissects the expression patterns and functions of the HoxD gene cluster during the early stages of limb bud development in the mouse.
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Jacqueline Deschamps (2004) studied this question.