Platypus Pou5f1 reveals the first steps in the evolution of trophectoderm differentiation and pluripotency in mammals

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 671-682

  Niwa, Hitoshi ^a,b   Sekita, Yoko ^a,d   Tsend Ayush, Enkhjargal ^c   Grützner, Frank ^c  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU;

DIVERGENCE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREME; MORPHOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PLACENTA; PLATYPUS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLACENTA; PLATYPUS; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DANIO RERIO; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; MUS; TACHYGLOSSIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51349105215     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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