Colinear and segmental expression of amphioxus Hox genes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 131-141

  Wada, Hiroshi ^a   Garcia Fernàndez, Jordi ^b   Holland, Peter W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Colinearity; Hox genes; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AMPHIOXUS; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHIOXUS; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; DROSOPHILA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345713155     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9369     Document Type: Article

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