Axis Patterning by BMPs: Cnidarian Network Reveals Evolutionary Constraints

Cell Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1646-1654

  Genikhovich, Grigory ^a   Fried, Patrick ^b,c   Prünster, M Mandela ^a   Schinko, Johannes B ^a,e   Gilles, Anna F ^a,e   Fredman, David ^a,d   Meier, Karin ^b   Iber, Dagmar ^b,c   Technau, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e Univ Lyon 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CHORDIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOX GENE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEMATOSTELLA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; EUMETAZOA; NEMATOSTELLA;

EID: 84925133695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.02.035     Document Type: Article

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