Hox, Wnt, and the evolution of the primary body axis: Insights from the early-divergent phyla

Biology Direct

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ryan, Joseph F ^a   Baxevanis, Andreas D ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); METAZOA; PLACOZOA; PORIFERA;

WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COELENTERATE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; REVIEW; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CNIDARIA; CTENOPHORA; EVOLUTION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; PORIFERA; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 38949216021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-2-37     Document Type: Review

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