Unexpected complexity of the Wnt gene family in a sea anemone

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7022, 2005, Pages 156-160

  Kusserow, Arne ^a   Pang, Kevin ^b   Sturm, Carsten ^a   Hrouda, Martin ^c   Lentfer, Jan ^a   Schmidt, Helko A ^d   Technau, Ulrich ^a,g   Von Haeseler, Arndt ^d,e   Hobmayer, Bert ^c   Martindale, Mark Q ^b   Holstein, Thomas W ^a,f  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g SARS Institute   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ECOSYSTEMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PROTEINS;

GASTRULATION; GENE FAMILY; HUMAN DISEASES; METAZOAN-SPECIFIC PROTEIN;

GENES;

WNT PROTEIN;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FATE; COMPLEX FORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; METAZOON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEA ANEMONE; WNT GENE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WNT PROTEINS;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CNIDARIA; ECDYSOZOA; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA; NEMATOSTELLA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 19944432478     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03158     Document Type: Article

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