Chicken homeobox gene Prox 1 related to Drosophila prospero is expressed in the developing lens and retina

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 206, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 354-367

  Tomarev, Stanislav I ^a   Sundin, Olof ^b   Banerjee Basu, Sharmila ^a   Duncan, Melinda K ^a   Yang, Jun Min ^b   Piatigorsky, Joram ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Evolution; Eye; Homeodomain protein; Lens; Prospero; Prox 1; Retina

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DELTA CRYSTALLIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLINS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETINA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0029784507     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199608)206:4<354::AID-AJA2>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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