Wagner, Erwin

Scope and Contents Evolution was also the underlying theme of the meeting Molecular Genetics of Early Drosophila and Mouse Development. Homology between related genes of different species is a very powerful tool for studying gene function, as the research on Drosophila homeo box genes and their mouse equivalents has shown. In addition, new advances such as homologous recombination offer the possibility of directly manipulating the genomes of organisms like the mouse, which were previously restricted to classic...