[Current Topics in Developmental Biology] Hox Genes Volume 88 || Chapter 7 Establishment of Hox Vertebral Identities in the Embryonic Spine Precursors

✍ Scribed by Iimura, Tadahiro

• Book ID: 120508633
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 706 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0123745292
• ISSN: 0070-2153
• DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(09)88007-1

✦ Synopsis

A subgroup of homeobox genes, which play an important role in the developmental processes of a variety of multicellular organisms, Hox genes have been shown to play a critical role in vertebrate pattern formation. Hox genes can be thought of as general purpose control genes—that is, they are similar in many organisms and direct the same processes in a variety of organisms, from mouse, to fly, to human.

* Provides researchers an overview and synthesis of the latest research findings and contemporary thought in the area

* Inclusion of chapters that discuss the evolutionary development of a wide variety of organisms

* Gives researchers and clinicians insight into how defective Hox genes trigger developmental abnormalities in embryos