Origin of Feathers: Feather Beta (β) Keratins Are Expressed in Discrete Epidermal Cell Populations of Embryonic Scutate Scales

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 295, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-24

  Sawyer, Roger H ^a   Salvatore, Brian A ^a   Potylicki, Ta Tanisha F ^a   French, Jeffery O ^a   Glenn, Travis C ^a,b   Knapp, Loren W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATORINAE; ARCHOSAURIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES;

KERATIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPTILE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; EPIDERMIS; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; KERATINS; REPTILES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038100445     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.5     Document Type: Article

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