A large-scale view of the evolution of amniote development: Insights from somitogenesis in reptiles

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 491-497

  Kusumi, Kenro ^a   May, Catherine M ^a   Eckalbar, Walter L ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HOX PROTEIN; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

AMNIOTE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DLL1 GENE; DLL3 GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HES7 GENE; HOX GENE; HOXC10 GENE; LFNG GENE; MESP2 GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVIEW; SOMITE; SOMITOGENESIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPINE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOUSE;

ALLIGATOR; AMNIOTA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; REPTILES; SOMITES;

EID: 84883445252     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2013.02.011     Document Type: Review

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