All vertebrate embryos follow a common developmental path due to their common ancestry. All have a set of very similar genes (the homeobox genes) that define their basic body plan. As they grow ...

However, plasticizers often leach from these products over time, entering the environment and making their way into the human body via food ... protects the brains of vertebrates from pathogens ...

The left–right asymmetrical placement of internal organs that characterizes the vertebrate body plan is established during embryogenesis by complex genetic and epigenetic cascades. In all ...