Expression of Hoxa-11 and Hoxa-13 in the pectoral fin of a basal ray-finned fish, Polyodon spathula: Implications for the origin of tetrapod limbs

Evolution and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 186-195

  Metscher, Brian D ^a,b   Takahashi, Kazuhiko ^b   Crow, Karen ^b   Amemiya, Chris ^c   Nonaka, Daisuke F ^b   Wagner, Günter P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEOBOX PROTEIN HOXA13; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXA PROTEIN;

EVOLUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTREMITIES; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACTINOPTERYGII; DANIO RERIO; OSTEICHTHYES; PISCES; POLYODON SPATHULA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SPATHULA; TAKIFUGU; TETRAODONTIDAE; TETRAPODA;

EID: 18944391695     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2005.05021.x     Document Type: Article

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