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Segmentation is a key feature of many animals. New molecular studies add to our understanding of how vertebrate segments form and how this process is linked to the genes that make each segment unique.

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Figure 1: The 'clock-and-wavefront model' of segmentation and patterning in vertebrates.

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  1. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Clifford J. Tabin

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    Randy L. Johnson

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Tabin, C., Johnson, R. Clocks and Hox. Nature 412, 780–781 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35090677

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