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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2020

A dot-stripe Turing model of joint patterning in the tetrapod limb.

Jake Cornwall Scoones, Tom W Hiscock

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Dynamical systems of fate and form in development.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2025
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  4. Self-organized BMP signaling dynamics underlie the development and evolution of digit segmentation patterns in birds and mammals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  5. Tissue Morphogenesis Through Dynamic Cell and Matrix Interactions.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 2023
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  7. BMP signaling and skeletal development in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP).Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2022
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  10. Making and shaping endochondral and intramembranous bones.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2021
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jake Cornwall ScoonesDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
Tom W HiscockWellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK twh27@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0319-8679
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK C9545/A29580Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Iterative joints are a hallmark of the tetrapod limb, and their positioning is a key step during limb development. Although the molecular regulation of joint formation is well studied, it remains unclear what controls the location, number and orientation (i.e. the pattern) of joints within each digit. Here, we propose the dot-stripe mechanism for joint patterning, comprising two coupled Turing systems inspired by published gene expression patterns. Our model can explain normal joint morphology in wild-type limbs, hyperphalangy in cetacean flippers, mutant phenotypes with misoriented joints and suggests a reinterpretation of the polydactylous Ichthyosaur fins as a polygonal joint lattice. By formulating a generic dot-stripe model, describing joint patterns rather than molecular joint markers, we demonstrate that the insights from the model should apply regardless of the biological specifics of the underlying mechanism, thus providing a unifying framework to interrogate joint patterning in the tetrapod limb.

Indexed as

Body PatterningModels, BiologicalAnimal FinsAnimalsBiodiversityBone and BonesExtremitiesJointsLimb patterningMathematical modellingTuring patterns

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PMID32127348
PMCPMC7174842
OpenAlexW3009276101

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