The Trox-2 Hox/ParaHox gene of Trichoplax (Placozoa) marks an epithelial boundary

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 170-175

  Jakob, Wolfgang ^a   Sagasser, Sven ^a   Dellaporta, Stephen ^b   Holland, Peter ^c   Kuhn, Kerstin ^d   Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b  

^a ITZ   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Morpholino; Placozoa; ProtoHox; RNAi; Trichoplax

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; HOX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOX GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; EPITHELIUM; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; PLACOZOA; TRICHOPLAX; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS; TROX;

EID: 2542505487     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-004-0390-8     Document Type: Article

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