Expression of the Vax family homeobox genes suggests multiple roles in eye development

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 267-276

  Ohsaki, Kanae ^a   Morimitsu, Toshiharu ^a   Ishida, Yoko ^a   Kominami, Ryo ^b   Takahashi, Naoki ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0033061653     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00257.x     Document Type: Article

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