AmphiPax3/7, an amphioxus paired box gene: Insights into chordate myogenesis, neurogenesis, and the possible evolutionary precursor of definitive vertebrate neural crest

Evolution and Development

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 153-165

  Holland, Linda Z ^a   Schubert, Michael ^a   Kozmik, Zbynek ^b   Holland, Nicholas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAX3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX7;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL CREST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL CREST; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX7 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033224549     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142x.1999.99019.x     Document Type: Article

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