An amphioxus Msx gene expressed predominantly in the dorsal neural tube

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 260-263

  Sharman, Anna C ^a,b   Shimeld, Sebastian M ^a   Holland, Peter W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b ELSEVIER MASSON   (France)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Msx gene; Neural crest; Placodes; Vertebrate evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ECTODERM; EVOLUTION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HOMEOBOX; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033063096     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050251     Document Type: Article

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