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Premature regression of the leg apical ectodermal ridge in the Japanese chick wingless mutant.
Anatomy and embryology - 1 Sept 2004
Yamaguchi Kumiko, Francis-West Philippa H, Shiraishi Kohji, Akita Keiichi
Abstract excerpt
The autosomal dominant Japanese wingless mutant has varying degrees of wing and leg truncations. The wing defects range from complete loss to negligible defects, whereas leg abnormalities are usually restricted to loss of the phalanges. Further analyses of the mutant focusing on the leg, which has been relatively uncharacterized, were performed. The expression pattern of Fgf8, a marker gene for the apical...
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