The mouse Ulnaless mutation deregulates posterior HoxD gene expression and alters appendicular patterning

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 3481-3492

  Peichel, Catherine L ^a   Prabhakaran, Bindu ^a   Vogt, Thomas F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colinearity; HoxD; Limb; Posterior prevalence; Ulnaless

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; LIMB; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; ULNA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030782384     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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