Global posterior prevalence is unique to vertebrates: A dance to the music of time?

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 241, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1799-1807

  Durston, A J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global posterior prevalence; Hox genes; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CAENORHABDITIS; CELL INTERACTION; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA STABILITY; SPINE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRIBOLIUM; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84867731410     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23852     Document Type: Note

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