Murine Hoxc-9 gene contains a structurally and functionally conserved enhancer

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 540-547

  Papenbrock, Thomas ^a   Peterson, Ron L ^b   Lee, Rachel S ^a   Hsu, Tien ^a,c   Kuroiwa, Atsushi ^d   Awgulewitsch, Alexander ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Conservation; Enhance; Hoxc 9; Intron; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMEOBOX; INTRON; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, HOMEOBOX; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031904041     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199808)212:4<540::AID-AJA7>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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