José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta, Hector Escrivá, Ignacio Maeso, Damien Devos and colleagues perform 4C-seq profiling of the Hox cluster in amphioxus embryos and find that, unlike in vertebrate embryos, the cluster is organized into a single chromatin interaction domain. They suggest that the vertebrate Hox bipartite regulatory system is an evolutionary novelty.
- Rafael D Acemel
- Juan J Tena
- José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta
