A function for all posterior Hoxd genes during digit development?

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 241, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 792-802

  Delpretti, Saskia ^a   Zakany, Jozsef ^b   Duboule, Denis ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digit development; Hoxd genes; Limb morphology

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; HOXD PROTEIN; HOXD10 PROTEIN; HOXD11 PROTEIN; HOXD12 PROTEIN; HOXD13 PROTEIN; HOXD9 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGIT DEVELOPMENT; FEMUR; FIBULA; FINGER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; METACARPAL BONE; METATARSAL BONE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHALANX; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; WRIST;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS; TETRAPODA;

EID: 84858285503     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23756     Document Type: Article

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