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Mouse and zebrafish Hoxa3 orthologues have nonequivalent in vivo protein function.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Jun 2010
Chen Lizhen, Zhao Peng, Wells Lance, Amemiya Chris T, Condie Brian G, Manley Nancy R
Abstract excerpt
Hox genes play evolutionarily conserved roles in specifying axial position during embryogenesis. A prevailing paradigm is that changes in Hox gene expression drive evolution of metazoan body plans. Conservation of Hox function across species, and among paralogous Hox genes within a species, supports a model of functional equivalence. In this report, we demonstrate that zebrafish hoxa3a (zfhoxa3a) expressed from...
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