On the nature of thumbs

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Wagner, Günter P ^a   Vargas, Alexander O ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; THUMB; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; REVIEW;

TETRAPODA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; THUMB;

EID: 45549093883     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-3-213     Document Type: Short Survey

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