Mohawk is a novel homeobox gene expressed in the developing mouse embryo

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 792-801

  Anderson, Douglas M ^a,b   Arredondo, Jennifer ^a,b   Hahn, Katherine ^a,b   Valente, Graziela ^b   Martin, James F ^c   Wilson Rawls, Jeanne ^a   Rawls, Alan ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chondrogenesis; Gonad; Homeobox; Iroquois; Kidney; Mohawk; Myogenesis; Somite; Tendon

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHONDROGENESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD; HOMEOBOX; IROQUIS GENE; MESENCHYME; MOHAWK GENE; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOTOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RIB; SCLEROTOME; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE; TENDON; TESTIS; URETER; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GONADS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KIDNEY; LIMB BUD; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SOMITES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644908750     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20671     Document Type: Article

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