Evolving hox activity profiles govern diversity in locomotor systems

Developmental Cell

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 171-187

  Jung, Heekyung ^a   Mazzoni, Esteban O ^b   Soshnikova, Natalia ^c,d   Hanley, Olivia ^a   Venkatesh, Byrappa ^e,f   Duboule, Denis ^c,g   Dasen, Jeremy S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

^e INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 5; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMAD8 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPENDAGE-BEARING VERTEBRATE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BRANCHIOSTOMA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CEPHALOCHORDATA; CHICK; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA BINDING; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; FORELIMB; FOXP1 GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HINDLIMB; HOX GENE; HOX4 GENE; HOX8 GENE; HOX9 GENE; HOXA GENE; HOXB9 GENE; HOXC GENE; HOXC4 GENE; HOXC6 GENE; HOXC9 GENE; HOXD9 GENE; HYPAXIAL MOTOR COLUMN NEURON; LAMPROPHIS FULIGINOSUS; LATERAL MOTOR COLUMN NEURON; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MEDIAL MOTOR COLUMN NEURON; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PANTHEROPHIS GUTTATUS; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RALDH2 GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE; TETRAPOD; ZEBRA FISH;

MUS; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SNAKES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84899620393     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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