Alx1, a member of the Cart1/Alx3/Alx4 subfamily of paired-class homeodomain proteins, is an essential component of the gene network controlling skeletogenic fate specification in the sea urchin embryo

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2917-2928

  Ettensohn, Charles A ^a   Illies, Michele R ^a   Oliveri, Paola ^b   De Jong, Deborah L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alx1; Alx3; Alx4; Biomineralization; Cart1; Early development; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Fate specification; Primary mesenchyme cells; Sea urchin embryo; Skeletogenesis

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FACE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTERPHASE; LIMB; MESENCHYME CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NECK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEA URCHINS;

ECHINOIDEA; EUECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037821924     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00511     Document Type: Article

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