Bare bones pattern formation: A core regulatory network in varying geometries reproduces major features of vertebrate limb development and evolution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Zhu, Jianfeng ^a   Zhang, Yong Tao ^a   Alber, Mark S ^a   Newman, Stuart A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FORMIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHONDROGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; CHICKEN; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; KINETICS; LIMB; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE AND BONES; CHICKENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECTODERM; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; KINETICS; LIMB BUDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VERTEBRATES; WING;

EID: 77956279129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010892     Document Type: Article

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