Vertebrate embryos from fish to mammals seem to use different routes to work out which way is up and which side is front. Yet a novel system involved in defining the dorsal side of fish might be conserved in mammals.
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Driever, W. A message to the back side. Nature 438, 926–927 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438926b
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