Are hox genes ancestrally involved in axial patterning? Evidence from the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica (cnidaria)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Chiori, Roxane ^a   Jager, Muriel ^a   Denker, Elsa ^b   Wincker, Patrick ^c   Da Silva, Corinne ^c   Le Guyader, Hervé ^a   Manuel, Michaël ^a   Quéinnec, Eric ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CNIDARIAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOX GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MEDUSA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANULA; PLESIOMORPHY; POLYP (CNIDARIAN); SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDODERM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTINIARIA; BILATERIA; CLYTIA HEMISPHAERICA; CNIDARIA; EUMETAZOA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CNIDARIA; ENDODERM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 58849135410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004231     Document Type: Article

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