Title : The mammalian cervical vertebrae blueprint depends on the T ( brachyury ) gene 1 2

Title: The mammalian cervical vertebrae blueprint depends on the T (brachyury) gene 1 2 Andreas Kromik, Reiner Ulrich, Marian Kusenda, Andrea Tipold, Veronika M. Stein, 3 Maren Hellige, Peter Dziallas, Frieder Hadlich, Philipp Widmann, Tom Goldammer, 4 Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Jürgen Rehage, Dierck Segelke, Rosemarie Weikard, Christa 5 Kühn 6 7 Affiliations: 8 * Leibniz-Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, 18196 9 Dummerstorf, Germany 10 § Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30559 Hannover, 11 Germany 12 † Clinic for Cattle, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30173 Hannover, Germany 13 ‡ Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, University of Veterinary Medicine 14 Hannover, 30559 Hannover, Germany 15 ** Clinic for Horses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 30559 Hannover, Germany 16 §§ Vereinigte Informationssysteme Tierhaltung w.V. (vit), 27283 Verden, Germany 17 ‡‡ Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University Rostock, 18059 Rostock, 18 Germany 19 20 Genetics: Early Online, published on January 22, 2015 as 10.1534/genetics.114.169680