Hox genes and the evolution of animal body plans

Animals come in many different shapes and sizes. How did all of these diverse body plans evolve? In this video, Dennis Sun describes how a group of similar genes, called Hox genes, are involved in setting up different kinds of body plans in crustaceans. Dennis is a PhD student in the lab of Nipam Patel at UC Berkeley. Learn more in the full post on sciencesketches.org: http://www.sciencesketches.org/single... Written, drawn, and narrated by Dennis Sun. Edited and produced by Lisa Dennison.