Certain Species of Lilies, If Eaten by Pregnant Ewes, Can

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Certain species of lilies, if eaten by pregnant ewes, can cause the ewes to produce lambs with severe birth defects because the cyclopamine that the plant produces can block embryonic response to Shh. This type of birth defect is a phenocopy of mutations in which genes?

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