Response to Comment on "Gene Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Animal Body Plans"

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Response to Comment on "Gene Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Animal Body Plans"

Douglas H. Erwin¹^,2^* and Eric H. Davidson³

Contrary to Coyne's assertions, our paper did not advocate amacromutational innovation of phyla but considered the consequencesof the introduction of developmental constraints for the evolutionof gene regulatory networks based on recent empirical studiesof gene regulatory networks.

¹ Department of Paleobiology, MRC-121, National Museum of Natural History, Post Office Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013–7012, USA.
² Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
³ Division of Biology 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: erwind{at}si.edu

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