Plasticity of axial identity among somites: Cranial somites can generate vertebrae without expressing Hox genes appropriate to the trunk

Developmental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 507-520

  Kant, Rajiv ^a   Goldstein, Ronald S ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Avian chimeras; Hox genes; Morphogenesis; Plasticity; Somites; Vertebra

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; RIB; SKULL; SOMITE; SPINAL GANGLION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRUNK; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033572394     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9512     Document Type: Article

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