The morphogenesis of feathers

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6913, 2002, Pages 308-312

  Yu, Mingke ^a   Wu, Ping ^a   Widelitz, Randall B ^a   Chuong, Cheng Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; GENES; PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

FEATHERS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; NOGGIN;

BIRD; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; MORPHOGENESIS;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUS; CHICKEN; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUSES; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHICK EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSGENES;

AVES; AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUS; DINOSAURIA; ERINACEIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037153157     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01196     Document Type: Article

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