In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes—small, specialized skin regions whose spatial organization is controlled by well-conserved genetic ...

AMES, Iowa – At a Biotechnology Council event a few years ago, Nicole Valenzuela’s ears perked up when she heard what a group of researchers in Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine ...

Newly-developed methods for utilizing performance surfaces—multivariate representations of the relationship between phenotype and functional performance—allow researchers to test hypotheses about ...