How The Dragon Got Its 'snap': Computer Modeling And Experimental Genetics Combined To Work Out Complex Shapes Of Organs

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How the Dragon Got Its 'Snap': Computer Modeling and Experimental Genetics Combined to Work out Complex Shapes of Organs

 

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A bee on a snapdragon flower. (Credit: Image courtesy of John Innes Centre)

 

ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2010) — Scientists at the John Innes Centre and the University of East Anglia are pioneering a powerful combination of computer modelling and experimental genetics to work out how the complex shapes of organs found in nature are produced by the interacting actions of genes. Their findings will influence our thinking about how these complex shapes have evolved.

 

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