Sequence and embryonic expression of the amphioxus engrailed gene (AmphiEn): The metameric pattern of transcription resembles that of its segment-polarity homolog in Drosophila

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1723-1732

  Holland, Linda Z ^a   Kene, Mamata ^b   Williams, Nic A ^c   Holland, Nicholas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AmphiEn; Amphioxus; Drosophila; Engrailed; Metamery; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIENCEPHALON; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMEOBOX; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CORD; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030949079     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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