Two Otx proteins generated from multiple transcripts of a single gene in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 253-266

  Li, Xiaotao ^a   Chuang, Chin Kai ^a   Mao, Chai An ^a   Angerer, Lynne M ^b   Klein, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; HEXAPODA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030789794     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8610     Document Type: Article

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