Mechanisms of Hox gene colinearity: Transposition of the anterior Hoxb1 gene into the posterior HoxD complex

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 198-211

  Kmita, Marie ^d   Van Der Hoeven, Frank ^a,c   Zákány, József ^d   Krumlauf, Robb ^b   Duboule, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Expression; Hox gene; Transgenes; Transposition

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; MESODERM; MOUSE; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034650804     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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