Conserved and divergent roles for members of the Snail family of transcription factors in the chick and mouse embryo

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3111-3121

  Sefton, Mark ^a   Sánchez, Silvia ^a   Nieto, M Angela ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chick; Chordate; Evolution; Gene duplication; Mesoderm; Mouse; Neural crest; Slug; Snail; Vertebrate; Zinc finger transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTREMITIES; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

AVES; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031668376     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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