Comparative genomics of the Hedgehog loci in chordates and the origins of Shh regulatory novelties

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Irimia, Manuel ^a,b   Royo, Jose L ^c   Burguera, Demian ^a   Maeso, Ignacio ^a,d   Gómez Skarmeta, José L ^c   Garcia Fernandez, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84861679502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00433     Document Type: Article

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