An amphioxus winged helix/forkhead gene, AmphiFoxD: Insights into vertebrate neural crest evolution

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 289-297

  Yu, Jr Kai ^a   Holland, Nicholas D ^a   Holland, Linda Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cephalochordata; Forebrain; Gene co option; Notochord; Somite

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN FORKHEAD; PROTEIN FOXD; PROTEIN WINGED HELIX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SOMITE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NASA DISCIPLINE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CEPHALOCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

NASA DISCIPLINE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036840229     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10173     Document Type: Article

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