Lost and found: beer belly is a novel, ancient regulator of animal development
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) can provide new insights into the regulation of developmental processes by revealing unknown or overlooked genes. We identified a novel gene called beer belly (bebe) as a marker of a segment addition zone (SAZ) associated cell cluster in a single-cell atlas of the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum. Here we show that bebe is an ancient toolkit gene encoding a…
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