Tbx5 and Tbx4 genes determine the wing/leg identity of limb buds

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6730, 1999, Pages 810-814

  Takeuchi, Jun K ^a   Koshiba Takeuchi, Kazuko ^a   Matsumoto, Ken ^a   Vogel Höpker, Astrid ^b   Naitoh Matsuo, Mayumi ^a   Ogura, Keiko ^a   Takahashi, Naoki ^a   Yasuda, Kunlo ^a   Ogura, Toshihiko ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; DROSOPHILA; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; HINDLIMB; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HINDLIMB; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIMB BUD; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

EID: 0033614374     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19762     Document Type: Article

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