The crest phenotype in chicken is associated with ectopic expression of hoxc8 in cranial skin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Yanqiang ^a   Gao, Yu ^a   Imsland, Freyja ^b   Gu, Xiaorong ^a   Feng, Chungang ^a   Liu, Ranran ^a   Song, Chi ^a,c   Tixier Boichard, Michèle ^d   Gourichon, David ^e   Li, Qingyuan ^a   Chen, Kuanwei ^c   Li, Huifang ^c   Andersson, Leif ^b,f   Hu, Xiaoxiang ^a   Li, Ning ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Jiangsu lnstitute of Poultry Science   (China)

^d UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

^e CEMAGREF   (France)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FOLLISTATIN; HOX PROTEIN; HOXC8 PROTEIN; NOGGIN; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT11 PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN; WNT7A PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BREED DIFFERENCE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREST GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEATHER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOXC12 GENE; HOXC13 GENE; HOXC8 GENE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEATHERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SKIN;

EID: 84859713572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034012     Document Type: Article

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