A novel family of T-box genes in urodele amphibian limb development and regeneration: Candidate genes involved in vertebrate forelimb/hindlimb patterning

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1355-1366

  Simon, Hans Georg ^a   Kittappa, Raja ^a,b   Khan, Paul A ^c   Tsilfidis, Catherine ^d,e   Liversage, Richard A ^c   Oppenheimer, Simone ^a  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Brachyury; Limb development; Notophthalmus; Pattern formation; Regeneration; Retinoic acid; T box; Urodele

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FORELIMB; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HINDLIMB; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB REGENERATION; NEWT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGENERATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SALAMANDRIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; NOTOPHTHALMUS; SALAMANDRIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030938484     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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