Next generation limb development and evolution: Old questions, new perspectives

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 142, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 3810-3820

  Zuniga, Aimée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BMP; FGF; HOXA; HOXD; SHH; Teleost; Topological domains; Turing; WNT

Indexed keywords

BIOMICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; TETRAPOD; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; LIMB BUDS; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84947475400     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.125757     Document Type: Review

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