Hox genes : studies from the 20th to the 21st century /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, c2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 169 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Series:	Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 689 Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 689.
Subject:	Homeobox genes. Genes, Homeobox. Evolution, Molecular. Gene Expression Regulation. Homeobox genes.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8895909

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Other authors / contributors:	Deutsch, Jean S., 1942-
ISBN:	9781441966735 (electronic bk.) 1441966730 (electronic bk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Hox genes. New York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, c2010 9781441966728

Table of Contents:

Regulation of hox activity : insights from protein motifs / Samir Merabet ... [et al.]
CIS-regulation in the drosophila : bithorax complex / Robert K. Maeda and François Karch
Maintenance of hox gene expression patterns / Samantha Beck ... [et al.]
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.

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