The T-box gene family
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Virginia E. Papaioannou; Lee M. Silver
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A novel family of transcription factors that appears to play a critical role in the development of all animal species was recently uncovered on the basis of homology to the DNA binding domain of the Brachyury, or T locus, gene product. Phylogenetic studies have shown the ancient origin of this gene