Conservation of Brachyury (T) genes in amphioxus and vertebrates: Developmental and evolutionary implications

Development

Volumn 121, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 4283-4291

  Holland, Peter W H ^a   Koschorz, Birgit ^b   Holland, Linda Z ^c   Herrmann, Bernhard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Brachyury; Evolution; Mesoderm; Notochord; T gene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHORDATA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FETAL PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOTOCHORD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029561722     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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