Expression patterns of threespine stickleback Hox genes and insights into the evolution of the vertebrate body axis

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 209, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 482-494

  Ahn, Dae Gwon ^a,b   Gibson, Greg ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body axis; Hox code; Hox genes; Tail development; Threespine stickleback

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEOST; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOTOCHORD; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPINE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0032776687     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050281     Document Type: Article

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