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Title Hox genes : studies from the 20th to the 21st century / edited by Jean S. Deutsch
Published New York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 169 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 689
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 689.
Contents Regulation of hox activity : insights from protein motifs / Samir Merabet [and others] -- CIS-regulation in the drosophila : bithorax complex / Robert K. Maeda and François Karch -- Maintenance of hox gene expression patterns / Samantha Beck [and others] -- Control of vertebrate hox clusters by remote and global CIS-acting regulatory sequences / François Spitz -- The early evolution of hox genes : a battle of belief? / Bernd Schierwater and Kai Kamm -- Evolution of hox complexes / David E.K. Ferrier -- The nematode story : hox gene loss and rapid evolution / Aziz Aboobaker and Mark Blaxter -- Are the deuterostome posterior hox genes a fast-evolving class? / Robert Lanfear -- Hox genes and the body plans of chelicerates and pycnogonids / Wim G.M. Damen -- Hox3/zen and the evolution of extraembryonic epithelia in insects / Urs Schmidt-Ott, Ab. Matteen Rafiqi and Steffen Lemke -- Hox genes and brain development in drosophila / Heinrich Reichert and Bruno Bello -- Homeosis and beyond : what is the function of the hox genes? / Jean S. Deutsch
Summary The purpose of this book is to argue, and to convince those who may not agree, that the Hox genes are indeed so important that their study will not end with the 20th century. The book is divided into three major sections. The first section covers aspects of the regulation of Hox gene expression and the structure and function of the now justifiably well-known homeobox. The second section offers insights and discussions of the sometimes contentious issues of the origin and evolution of the aforementioned Hox complexes. In the third and last section the role of the resident loci in the specificat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Homeobox genes.
Genetic regulation.
Molecular evolution.
Genes, Homeobox
Gene Expression Regulation
Evolution, Molecular
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Developmental Biology.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Molecular evolution
Genetic regulation
Homeobox genes
Homöotisches Gen
Form Electronic book
Author Deutsch, Jean S., 1942-
LC no. 2010015817
ISBN 9781441966735
1441966730
9781441966728
1441966722
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9781283074490