The gene responsible for forming the inner ear in vertebrate animals.
Pax 2 Quotes in Your Inner Fish
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Chapter 10
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Jellyfish do not have either Pax 6 or Pax 2: they arose before those genes hit the scene. But in the box jellyfish's genes we see something remarkable. The gene that forms the eyes is not Pax 6, as we'd expect, but a sort of mosaic that has the structure of both Pax 6 and Pax 2. In other words, this gene looks like a primitive version of other animals' Pax 6 and Pax 2.
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Pax 2 Term Timeline in Your Inner Fish
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Chapter 10: Ears
Genetic information also tells the long history of the ear. A gene called Pax 2 seems to control ear formation in both mice and humans, as a mutation in Pax...
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Jellyfish and the Origins of Eyes and Ears. There is a link between the Pax 2 gene for ear formation and the Pax 6 gene we saw in Chapter 9 for...
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