Sentences with phrase «conserved over the course of evolution»

In today's issue of Cell, a team reports that it has found in mice and humans a close relative of a fruit fly clock gene — the first evidence that some of these genes may have been conserved over the course of evolution.

What I find most interesting is the idea that the embryonic tissue that goes on to form limb and the motor neurons is regulated by coordinated molecular mechanisms — under the guidance of a genetic program that has been conserved over the course of evolution.