Evolutionary origin of the Otx2 enhancer for its expression in visceral endoderm

Developmental Biology

Volumn 342, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 110-120

  Kurokawa, Daisuke ^a,b   Ohmura, Tomomi ^a   Ogino, Hajime ^c   Takeuchi, Masaki ^a   Inoue, Ai ^a   Inoue, Fumitaka ^a   Suda, Yoko ^a   Aizawa, Shinichi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior mesendoderm; Anterior visceral endoderm; Cis element; Evolution; Head organizer; Otx2

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2;

ACTINISTIA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPNOI; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; ENHANCER REGION; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURTLE; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; COELACANTHIMORPHA; DIPNOI; MAMMALIA; OSTEICHTHYES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952586258     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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