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What does homeotic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to homeosis.
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Sundberg interpreted many aspects of trilobite evolution in terms of homeotic change.
If the candidate mutation is involved in homeotic gene silencing, an increase in the numbers of sex comb teeth on the adult second and third legs is expected.
The evolution of homeotic mutants, according to Simpson, still depended on selection acting on populations of individuals.
These genes encode proteins that are involved in regulating the expression of homeotic genes by changing chromatin structure.
Mutation and overexpression of labial result in altered homeotic gene expression in the tritocerebrum.
In these plants, some sepals showed homeotic transformations to carpels, becoming fused and presenting ovules and stigmatic papillae.

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