Global patterning of the vertebrate mesoderm

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 236, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2371-2381

  Winslow, Benjamin Britton ^a   Takimoto Kimura, Ryoko ^a   Burke, Ann Campbell ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abaxial; Animal; Global axial pattern; Hox regulation; Lateral somitic frontier; Mesoderm; Primaxial; Somite; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULATION; GDF11 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; HOX GENE; HOXA1 GENE; HOXA3 GENE; HOXB5 GENE; HOXB9 GENE; HOXC GENE; HOXD10 GENE; HOXD11 GENE; HOXD13 GENE; IRX1 GENE; IRX5 GENE; LBX1 GENE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; MYF5 GENE; NONHUMAN; PAX1 GENE; PAX3 GENE; PITX1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRX1 GENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; TBX4 GENE; TBX5 GENE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548814164     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21254     Document Type: Review

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