The chicken caudal genes establish an anterior-posterior gradient by partially overlapping temporal and spatial patterns of expression

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 64, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 41-52

  Marom, Karen ^a   Shapira, Eli ^a   Fainsod, Abraham ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Axial specification; Cdx; Chicken; Embryonic development; Hox; Primitive streak

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; HOMEOBOX; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

GALLUS GALLUS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030762432     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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