A maternally established SoxB1/SoxF axis is a conserved feature of chordate germ layer patterning

Evolution and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-115

  Cattell, Maria V ^a   Garnett, Aaron T ^a   Klymkowsky, Michael W ^a   Medeiros, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANCESTRY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM LAYER; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; LAMPREY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM LAYERS; LAMPREYS; LARVA; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SOXF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84864051317     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00525.x     Document Type: Article

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