Patterning and post-patterning modes of evolutionary digit loss in mammals

Nature

Volumn 511, Issue 7507, 2014, Pages 41-45

  Cooper, Kimberly L ^a,f   Sears, Karen E ^b   Uygur, Aysu ^a   Maier, Jennifer ^b   Baczkowski, Karl Stephan ^c   Brosnahan, Margaret ^d   Antczak, Doug ^d   Skidmore, Julian A ^e   Tabin, Clifford J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^e Camel Reproduction Centre Dubai   (United Arab Emirates)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

DESERT; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMB; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; TETRAPOD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGIT LOSS; DIPUS SAGITTA; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FINGER MALFORMATION; HORSE; MAMMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; CAMELS; CELL DEATH; CHONDROGENESIS; EXTREMITIES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HORSES; MAMMALS; MICE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RODENTIA; SWINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84903713669     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13496     Document Type: Article

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