Controlling Hox gene expression and activity to build the vertebrate axial skeleton

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-36

  Casaca, Ana ^a   Santos, Ana Cristina ^a   Mallo, Moisés ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Axial skeleton; Epigenetic regulation; Functional specificity; Hox genes

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN;

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOX GENE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SKELETON; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

AXIAL SKELETON; EPIGENETIC REGULATION; FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICITY; HOX GENES;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HUMANS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84890860709     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24007     Document Type: Review

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