Expression of the Emx-1 and Dlx-1 homeobox genes define three molecularly distinct domains in the telencephalon of mouse, chick, turtle and frog embryos: Implications for the evolution of telencephalic subdivisions in amniotes

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2099-2111

  Fernandez, Anibal Smith ^a,e   Pieau, Claude ^c   Repérant, Jacques ^d   Boncinelli, Edoardo ^b   Wassef, Marion ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain; Chick; Dlx 1; Emx 1; Evolution; Forebrain; Frog; Mouse; Neural tube; Pax 6; Telencephalon; Turtle; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHICKEN; CHIMERA; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELENCEPHALON; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COTURNIX; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TURTLES; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031834631     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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