Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Digit Loss in the Australian Lizard Hemiergis

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 297, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 48-56

  Shapiro, Michael D ^a,c   Hanken, James ^a   Rosenthal, Nadia ^b,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERINACEIDAE; HEMIERGIS; SQUAMATA; TETRAPODA;

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMB; LIZARD; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIZARDS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0141817844     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.19     Document Type: Article

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