Trends Genet. 1999 Sep;15(9):371-7.

Pax 6: mastering eye morphogenesis and eye evolution.

Department of Cell Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. gehring@ubaclu.unibas.ch

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Pax 6 genes from various animal phyla are capable of inducing ectopic eye development, indicating that Pax 6 is a master control gene for eye morphogenesis. It is proposed that the various eye-types found in metazoa are derived from a common prototype, monophyletically, by a mechanism called intercalary evolution.

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