Insights from amphioxus into the evolution of vertebrate cartilage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Meulemans, Daniel ^a   Bronner Fraser, Marianne ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ALX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ALX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BAPX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BARX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CART1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOXD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOXE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROGENESIS; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PLESIOMORPHY; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MESODERM; NEURAL CREST; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 40749098581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000787     Document Type: Article

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