Gene expression reveals unique skeletal patterning in the limb of the direct-developing frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 439-448

  Kerney, Ryan ^a,b   Hanken, James ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SOX-9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

BONE; COLLAGEN; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMB; MORPHOGENESIS; RNA; RODENT; SKELETON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FROGS AND TOADS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANURA; BODY PATTERNING; BONE DEVELOPMENT; COLLAGEN TYPE II; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 1 SUBUNIT; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 47249105075     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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