Bapx1: An evolutionary conserved homologue of the Drosophila bagpipe homeobox gene is expressed in splanchnic mesoderm and the embryonic skeleton

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 145-162

  Tribioli, Carla ^a,b   Frasch, Manfred ^a   Lufkin, Thomas ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bapx1; Drosophila; Homeobox gene

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 5; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MALE; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTOME; SOMITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESODERM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKELETON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031193948     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00067-1     Document Type: Article

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