Frame-shifts of digit identity in bird evolution and Cyclopamine-treated wings

Evolution and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-169

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPAMINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; VERATRUM ALKALOID;

ALKALOID; BIRD; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STEROID; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CARTILAGE; FORELIMB; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY PATTERNING; CARTILAGE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; PHENOTYPE; TIME FACTORS; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS; WING;

AMNIOTA; ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES;

EID: 60849087074     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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