Usually means: Genes controlling developmental body layout.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hox gene)

▸ noun:  (genetics) Any of the genes in the vertebrate homeobox.

Similar:
homothorax, hexon, hexosome, HAR2, huxon, hoxter, huxen, hexonucleotide, haxor, hexit, more...

Opposite:
anti-hox, para-hox, post-hox

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Similar:
homothorax, hexon, hexosome, HAR2, huxon, hoxter, huxen, hexonucleotide, haxor, hexit, more...

Opposite:
anti-hox, para-hox, post-hox



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