Conservation and diversification of an ancestral chordate gene regulatory network for dorsoventral patterning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kozmikova, Iryna ^a   Smolikova, Jana ^a   Vlcek, Cestmir ^a   Kozmik, Zbynek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CHORDIN; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN AMPHIVENT1; PROTEIN AMPHIVENT2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; VENT PROTEIN, AMPHIOXUS;

AMPHICHORDIN GENE; AMPHIGOOSECOID GENE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENICS; VENT GENE; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; ORYZIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORDATA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 79751484924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014650     Document Type: Article

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