Pulling forces acting on Hox gene clusters cause expression collinearity

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 301-306

  Papageorgiou, Spyros ^a  

^a Institute of Biology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collinearity; Hox gene expression

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA PACKAGING; ELECTRICITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOX GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646383885     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.052034sp     Document Type: Article

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