Hox genes
By: edited by Olivier Pourquié
Contributors: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Current topics in developmental biology -- v. 88
Publisher: Elsevier; Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston; San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780080923123; 9780123745293
Subjects: Genetics & Genomics; SCIENCE; Life Sciences; Homeobox genes; Homeobox Genes
Description: Reviews current research findings and thought on the role of Hox genes in vertebrate pattern formation along the anterior-posterior body axis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The bithorax complex of drosophila: an exceptional hox cluster  -- Robert K. Maeda and François Karch; title: Evolution of the hox gene complex from an evolutionary ground state  -- Walter J. Gehring, Urs Kloter, and Hiroshi Suga; title: Hox specificity: unique roles for cofactors and collaborators  -- Richard S. Mann, Katherine M. Lelli, and Rohit Joshi; title: Hox genes and segmentation of the vertebrate hindbrain  -- Stefan Tümpel, Leanne M. Wiedemann, and Robb Krumlauf; title: Hox genes in neural patterning and circuit formation in the mouse hindbrain  -- Yuichi Narita and Filippo M. Rijli; title: Hox networks and the origins of motor neuron diversity  -- Jeremy S. Dasen and Thomas M. Jessell; title: Establishment of hox vertebral identities in the embryonic spine precursors  -- Tadahiro Limura, Nicolas Denans, and Olivier Pourquié; title: Hox, Cdx, and anteroposterior patterning in the mouse embryo  -- Teddy Young and Jacqueline Deschamps; title: Hox genes and vertebrate axial pattern -- Deneen M. Wellik.