The mammalian dentition is a segmental, or periodically arranged, organ system whose components are arrayed in specific number and in regionally differentiated locations along the linear axes of the jaws. This arrangement evolved from simpler dentitions comprised of many single-cusp teeth of relatively indeterminate number. The different types of mammalian teeth have subsequently evolved as largely independent units. The experimentally documented developmental autonomy of dental primordia shows that the basic dental pattern is established early in embryogenesis. An understanding of how genetic patterning processes may work must be consistent with the different modes of development, and partially independent evolution, of the upper and lower dentition in mammals. The periodic nature of the location, number, and morphological structure of teeth suggests that processes involving the quantitative interaction of diffusible signaling factors may be involved. Several extracellular signaling molecules and their interactions have been identified that may be responsible for locating teeth along the jaws and for the formation of the incisor field. Similarly, the wavelike expression of signaling factors within developing teeth suggests that dynamic interactions among those factors may be responsible for crown patterns. These factors seem to be similar among different tooth types, but the extent to which crown differences can be explained strictly in terms of variation in the parameters of interactions among the same genes, as opposed to tooth-type-specific combinatorial codes of gene expression, is not yet known. There is evidence that combinatorial expression of intracellular transcription factors, including homeobox gene families, may establish domains within the jaws in which different tooth types are able to develop. An evolutionary perspective can be important for our understanding of dental patterning and the designing of appropriate experimental approaches, but dental patterns also raise basic unresolved questions about the nature of the evolutionary assumptions made in developmental genetics.
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