Molecular cloning and expression of the human and mouse homologues of the Drosophila dachshund gene

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 209, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 537-545

  Kozmik, Zbynek ^a   Pfeffer, Peter ^b   Kralova, Jarmila ^a   Paces, Jan ^a   Paces, Vaclav ^a   Kalousova, Anna ^a   Cvekl, Ales ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dachshund; Eye; Limb; Mammalian development; Pax6

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL LINE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; LUNG; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA DACHSHUND; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032843038     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050286     Document Type: Article

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