Ambulacrarian prototypical Hox and ParaHox gene complements of the indirect-developing hemichordate Balanoglossus simodensis

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 219, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 383-389

  Ikuta, Tetsuro ^a   Miyamoto, Norio ^b   Saito, Yasunori ^b   Wada, Hiroshi ^b   Satoh, Nori ^c   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulacrarians; Hemichordates; Hox; ParaHox

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN HOX 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BALANOGLOSSUS SIMODENSIS; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINODERM; EMBRYO; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOX GENE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; BALANOGLOSSUS; ECHINODERMATA; HEMICHORDATA;

EID: 70349148197     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-009-0298-4     Document Type: Article

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