Hmx遺伝子の保存は,脊椎動物の頭蓋骨の起源を特定する

Vasileios Papadogiannis1,2, Alessandro Pennati1,3, Hugo J Parker4

  • 1Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Nature
|May 18, 2022
PubMed
まとめ

ホメオボックスの転写因子Hmxは脊椎動物における感覚システムの発達に不可欠である. 双極性尾神経は脊椎動物の頭蓋骨の感覚系の前駆体であることを示唆している.

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