Rescue of Drosophila labial null mutant by the chicken ortholog Hoxb-1 demonstrates that the function of Hox genes is phylogenetically conserved

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 176-184

  Lutz, Beat ^a,c   Lu, Hui Chen ^a   Eichele, Gregor ^a   Miller, David ^b   Kaufman, Thomas C ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

chicken Hoxb 1; Drosophila labial; evolution; HOM C genes; Hox genes; pattern formation; phenotypic rescue

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RNA;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; GALLUS GALLUS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030057027     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.2.176     Document Type: Article

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