HyBra1, a Brachyury homologue, acts during head formation in Hydra

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 999-1010

  Technau, Ulrich ^a,b   Bode, Hans R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Brachyury homologue; Head formation; HyBra1; Hydra

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; DECAPITATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; HUMANS; HYDRA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGENERATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; COELENTERATA; HYDRA;

EID: 0033002952     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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