Hox code in embryos of Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis correlates with the evolutionary innovation in the turtle

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 304, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-118

  Ohya, Yoshie Kawashima ^a   Kuraku, Shigehiro ^a   Kuratani, Shigeru ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTA; ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; PELODISCUS SINENSIS; TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SOMITE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOMITES; TURTLES;

EID: 17844373817     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21027     Document Type: Article

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