The road to the vertebral formula

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 8-10, 2009, Pages 1469-1481

  Mallo, Moisés ^a   Vinagre, Tânia ^a   Carapuço, Marta ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Hox gene; Patterning; Signalling; Skeleton; Somitogenesis

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HOX PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; HOX GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS NONHUMAN DATA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MESODERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACRUM; SKELETON; SOMITE; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; SPINE; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 73949088344     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.072276mm     Document Type: Review

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