A relative shift in cloacal location repositions external genitalia in amniote evolution

Nature

Volumn 516, Issue 7531, 2014, Pages 391-394

  Tschopp, Patrick ^a   Sherratt, Emma ^b,g   Sanger, Thomas J ^b,h   Groner, Anna C ^c   Aspiras, Ariel C ^a   Hu, Jimmy K ^a,i   Pourquié, Olivier ^a,d,e   Gros, Jérôme ^f   Tabin, Clifford J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^g IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLADISTICS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; LIMB; MAMMAL; RNA;

AMNIOTE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CHICKEN; CLADISTICS; CLOACA; GENITAL SYSTEM; HINDLIMB; MAMMAL; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SQUAMATE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL LINEAGE; CLOACA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENITALIA; MICE; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAKES; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84923169414     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13819     Document Type: Article

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