Mouse a1x3: An aristaless-like Homeobox gene expressed during embryogenesis in ectomesenchyme and lateral plate mesoderm

Developmental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-25

  Ten Berge, Derk ^a   Brouwer, Antje ^a   El Bahi, Sophia ^b   Guénet, Jean Louis ^b   Robert, Benoît ^b   Meijlink, Frits ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Aristaless; Cart1; Homeobox gene; In situ hybridization; Lateral plate mesoderm; Limb development; Mouse embryology; Neural crest derived mesenchyme; Pharyngeal arches; Proximodistal patterning; Skeletogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BONE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HEAD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMB; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEURAL CREST; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

ALX3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ARISTALESS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; CART1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BRANCHIAL REGION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXTREMITIES; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032105472     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.8921     Document Type: Article

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