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zootype: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary developmental biology

the proposal that all animals share a defining spatial pattern of Hox and related gene expression along the head-to-tail axis, seen most clearly at the phylotypic stage.

In evolutionary developmental biology, zootype refers to the proposal that all animals share a defining spatial pattern of Hox and related gene expression along the head-to-tail axis, seen most clearly at the phylotypic stage. This meaning comes from Slack (1993) in Nature.[1]

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  1. Slack, J. M. W., Holland, P. W. H., & Graham, C. F. (1993). The zootype and the phylotypic stage. Nature, 361(6412), 490-492. https://doi.org/10.1038/361490a0

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