Mouse Dac, a novel nuclear factor with homology to Drosophila dachshund shows a dynamic expression in the neural crest, the eye, the neocortex, and the limb bud

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 66-80

  Caubit, Xavier ^d   Thangarajah, Rajikala ^d   Theil, Thomas ^a   Wirth, Jutta ^b   Nothwang, Hans Gerd ^b   Rüther, Ulrich ^a   Krauss, Stefan ^c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Dac; Dachshund; Drosophila; Embryology; Eye; Human; Limb bud; Mental retardation; Mouse; Neocortex; Neural crest

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; LIMB BUD; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; LIMB BUD; MESODERM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL CREST; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA DACHSHUND; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032953450     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199901)214:1<66::AID-DVDY7>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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