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The Phoenix, Fernanda Perez-Alvarez
The Phoenix, Fernanda Perez-Alvarez
Montserrat Annual Writing Prize
This article uses a mythical creature, the phoenix, to examine and illustrate the biological principles for generation of an adult body plan from a single cell. Using the study of developmental biology, it explores the cellular and molecular biology that underpins the massive complexity of creating an adult body plan. It also explores the similarities and differences between different embryos, and how nature and evolution have shaped the biology of those embryos to create different body plans.