Embryonic expression and evolutionary analysis of the amphioxus Dickkopf and Kremen family genes

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 637-645

  Zhang, Yujun ^a,b   Mao, Bingyu ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Dickkopf; Evolution; Expression pattern; Kremen

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DKK GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KREMEN GENE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LARVA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957665014     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1673-8527(09)60082-5     Document Type: Article

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