Marsupial embryo jumps ahead in development
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 21:20
in Mathematics & Economics
Long a staple of nature documentaries, the somewhat bizarre development of a grub-like pink marsupial embryo outside the mother's womb is curious in another way. Researchers have found that the developmental program executed by the marsupial embryo runs in a different order than the program executed by virtually every other vertebrate animal.