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The gene responsible for forming the inner ear in vertebrate animals.
Pax 2 Quotes in Your Inner Fish
The Your Inner Fish quotes below are all either spoken by Pax 2 or refer to Pax 2. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10 Quotes
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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As Shubin explains the history and development of the human eye, he examines the genes that control the production of the eye in embryos. This gene, called Pax 6, is found in many other animals – even those that don’t have the same type of eye as humans. Jellyfish are some of the simplest animals on the planet, and likely developed between 700 and 500 million years ago. This means they developed before many fine tuned organs fully adapted. Yet remarkably, the box jellyfish genome includes a primitive version of the Pax 6 gene that seems to be mixed with Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molest
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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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