AmphiBMP2/4, an amphioxus bone morphogenetic protein closely related to Drosophila decapentaplegic and vertebrate BMP2 and BMP4: Insights into evolution of dorsoventral axis specification

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 130-139

  Panopoulou, Georgia D ^a   Clark, Matthew D ^a   Holland, Linda Z ^b   Lehrach, Hans ^a   Holland, Nicholas D ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cephalochordate; Dorsoventral body axis; Heart; TGF

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VERTEBRATES;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031825195     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199809)213:1<130::AID-AJA13>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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