Hox C cluster genes are dispensable for overall body plan of mouse embryonic development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 333-342

  Suemori, Hirofumi ^a   Noguchi, Shigeru ^a  

^a KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cre loxP; Gene targeting; Hox; Hox C cluster; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034656095     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2000.9651     Document Type: Article

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