Evolutionarily conserved requirement of Cdx for post-occipital tissue emergence
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Evolutionarily conserved requirement of Cdx for post-occipital tissue emergence.
Mouse Cdx genes are involved in axial patterning and partial Cdx mutants exhibit posterior embryonic defects. We found that mouse embryos in which all three Cdx genes are inactivated fail to generate any axial tissue beyond the cephalic and occipital primordia. Anterior axial tissues are laid down and well patterned in Cdx null embryos, and a 3' Hox gene is initially transcribed and expressed i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Development
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1477-9129,0950-1991
DOI: 10.1242/dev.079848