@..@A new study, published today in the journal Developmental Cell, ©reveals that the same genetic snippets that control the outgrowth of limbs during embryonic development in mammals are crucial to the development of the phallus in both mammals and reptiles including legless snakes//
@..@**It tells us that we are a little bit myopic in thinking about what these limb enhancers are doing in mammals,** said study leader Doug Menke, a genetics researcher at the University of Georgia// ©**We*ve really been thinking of these as limb enhancers, but more broadly these genetic components are actually also participating in development and driving gene expression in other body tissues,** he told Live Science//