Patterning the cranial neural crest: Hinbrain segmentation and hox gene plasticity

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 116-124

  Trainor, Paul A ^a   Krumlauf, Robb ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SKULL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; NEURAL CREST; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SKULL;

EID: 0034329020     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35039056     Document Type: Article

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