Conservation of structure and functional divergence of duplicated Wnt8s in pufferfish

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 441-448

  Ramel, Marie Christine ^a   Buckles, Gerri R ^a   Lekven, Arne C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicistronic; Embryonic patterning; Gene duplication; Pufferfish; Teleosts; wnt8; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

FISH PROTEIN; PROTEIN WNT8 1; PROTEIN WNT8 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE DUPLICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PUFFER FISH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOST; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TAKIFUGU; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODONTIDAE; TETRAPODA;

EID: 4544234961     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20141     Document Type: Article

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