• Hox genes, a subset of homeobox genes, are a group of related genes that specify regions of the body plan of an embryo along the head-tail axis of animals...
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    chromosomes. An example of a gene cluster is the Hox gene, which is made up of eight genes and is part of the Homeobox gene family. Historically, four models...
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    Homeobox (redirect from HOX cluster)
    Hox genes after the down-regulation of the pair-rule and gap genes that occurs during larval development. Polycomb-group proteins can silence the Hox...
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    Antennapedia (category Drosophila melanogaster genes)
    Antennapedia (abbreviated Antp) is a Hox gene first discovered in Drosophila which controls the formation of legs during development. Loss-of-function...
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  • Additional evidence for the role that Hox genes play in limb development was found when researchers effected Hox gene expressions in zebrafish by adding...
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    bud, and hence the AER, is specified by the expression boundaries of Hox genes in the embryonic trunk. At these positions, the induction of cell outgrowth...
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    Hox genes play a massive role in some amphibians and reptiles in their ability to regenerate lost limbs, especially HoxA and HoxD genes. If the processes...
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  • discovered) and humans. Hox genes are a subset of the homeobox genes. The Hox genes are often conserved across species, so some of the Hox genes of Drosophila are...
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    organism. Among the most important of the toolkit genes are those of the Hox gene cluster, or complex. Hox genes, transcription factors containing the more broadly...
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    (Hox) genes in animals. These genes not only underwent gene duplications within chromosomes but also whole genome duplications. As a result, Hox genes...
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  • domains DLX gene family Hox gene family POU family Krüppel-type zinc finger (ZNF) MADS-box gene family NOTCH2NL P300-CBP coactivator family SOX gene family...
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    has the same set of Hox genes. The organization of Hox genes is only known for C. intestinalis among ascidians. The nine Hox genes are located on two chromosomes;...
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  • complex, and that other events, such as successive loss of function of a Hox-gene, could result in parallel gains of leg segments. In arthropods, each of...
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  • Hox or HOX may refer to: Hox gene Hoxton railway station, in London Joop Hox (born 1949), Dutch psychologist House of X and Powers of X This disambiguation...
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  • factors by looking at the Hox genes. His main research has been in Drosophila, comparing Hox genes within that species with Hox genes in other species, to...
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    the evolution of the arthropod body resulted from changes in certain Hox genes' DNA sequences. The trunks of arthropods comprise repeated segments, which...
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    embryogenesis, acts through the Hox genes. It was originally postulated that retinoic acid acts to induce the Hoxb-8 gene, but this hypothesis has not been...
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    sacral (pelvic), and caudal (tail) vertebrae. Early in snake evolution, the Hox gene expression in the axial skeleton responsible for the development of the...
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    Synteny (redirect from Syntenic gene)
    reflect important functional relationships between genes. For example, the order of genes in the "Hox cluster", which are key determinants of the animal...
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  • oscillation in abundance of specific gene products, such as members of the Hairy and Enhancer of Split (Hes) gene family. Expression starts at the posterior...
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    role in arthropod embryological development, working in consort with the Hox genes, engrailed has been found to be important in other areas of development...
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  • rhombomeres and Hox gene expression, the Hox gene is still an important factor when it comes to specification of the neuronal phenotype. The Hox gene was expressed...
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    Homeobox A1 (redirect from HOXA1 (gene))
    Homeobox protein Hox-A1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXA1 gene. Two transcript variants encoding two different isoforms have been found...
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    not depend on hox genes in their larval development either, but need them during metamorphosis to reach their adult form. Innexin genes, which code for...
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  • bind to DNA to regulate the expression of genes. In particular this family of proteins can regulate the Hox genes. They are regulators of embryonic development...
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    S2CID 83931661. Sordino, Paolo; van der Hoeven, Frank; Duboule, Denis (1995). "Hox gene expression in teleost fins and the origin of vertebrate digits". Nature...
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  • form. The Hox genes, for example, control which organs individual regions of an embryo will develop into. For instance, if a certain Hox gene is expressed...
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    guides development of the posterior portion of the embryo. It acts through Hox genes, which ultimately control anterior/posterior patterning in early developmental...
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    the effect of Hox gene knockouts on the formation of the pisiform in mice have suggested that the modification of Hoxa11 or Hoxd11 genes, or the downstream...
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    arthropods that lived in Cambrian oceans. However, a subsequent study using Hox gene expression patterns demonstrated the developmental homology between chelicerates...
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