Distinct roles for distal-less genes Dlx3 and Dlx5 in regulating ectodermal development in Xenopus
✍ Scribed by Ting Luo; Mami Matsuo-Takasaki; Thomas D. Sargent
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-452X
- DOI
- 10.1002/mrd.1095
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In vertebrates, there are six or more copies of genes related to the Drosophila pattern formation homeodomain gene Distal‐less. Among this family, __Dlx__3 and __Dlx__5 share extensive sequence homology and have similar, but distinctive, expression patterns, suggesting that these two factors may have substantially redundant developmental functions. Here we show that at the earliest phases of embryogenesis in Xenopus, there are significant differences between __Dlx__3 and __Dlx__5 expression and that this correlates with different functions in the restriction of neural crest and neural plate boundaries, respectively. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 60: 331–337, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.