[Dragaera] Boing!

[Davdi Silverrock]

On 9/7/06, Philip Hart wrote:
>
> We've got some fly wing-making genes iirc, but ...
>

I'm 99.9% sure we don't.

That is, I'm pretty sure that the lineage of vertebrates split off
from all other invertebrate lineages long before flies evolved wings.

Perhaps you are thinking of Hox genes being amazingly strongly
conserved in all animal lineages?  I think that if mammalian Hox is
transposed to flies, the flies still develop wings normally.  But Hox
is regulatory; it doesn't actually code for wing development itself.

Or so I understand, anyway.

Where's our geneticists?