AmphiFoxE4, an amphioxus winged helix/forkhead gene encoding a protein closely related to vertebrate thyroid transcription factor-2: Expression during pharyngeal development

Evolution and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-15

  Yu, Jr Kai ^a   Holland, Linda Z ^a   Jamrich, Milan ^b   Blitz, Ira L ^c   Holland, Nicholas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETICS;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA;

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXE1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NASA DISCIPLINE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

NASA DISCIPLINE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PHARYNX; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036371225     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142x.2002.01057.x     Document Type: Article

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