A regulatory 'landscape effect' over the HoxD cluster

Developmental Biology

Volumn 351, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 288-296

  Tschopp, Patrick ^a   Duboule, Denis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Axial elongation; Collinearity; Gene regulation; Hox; Limb development; Mesomelia

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; TRUNK; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951681783     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.12.034     Document Type: Article

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