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What are the roles of retinoids, other morphogens, and Hox genes in setting up the vertebrate body axis? by Durston, Antony J.

“…Summary This article is concerned with the roles of retinoids and other known anterior–posterior morphogens in setting up the embryonic vertebrate…”
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A Tribute to Lewis Wolpert and His Ideas on the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of His Paper 'Positional Information and the Spatial Pattern of Differentiation'. Evidence for a Timing Mechanism for Setting Up the Vertebrate Anterior-Posterior (A-P) Axis by Durston, Antony J

“…This article is a tribute to Lewis Wolpert and his ideas on the occasion of the recent 50th anniversary of the publication of his article 'Positional…”
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Collinear Hox-Hox interactions are involved in patterning the vertebrate anteroposterior (A-P) axis by Zhu, Kongju, Spaink, Herman P, Durston, Antony J

“…Investigating regulation and function of the Hox genes, key regulators of positional identity in the embryo, opened a new vista in developmental biology. One…”
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A tribute to D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: Elucidation of a developmental principle by Durston, Antony J., Zhu, Kongju

“…We show the vertebrate anterior –posterior axis is made by time space translation (TST). 1/ TST of Hox temporal to spatial collinearity makes the trunk part of…”
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Dislocation is a developmental mechanism in Dictyostelium and vertebrates by Durston, Antony J.

“…The excitable cells of Dictyostelium discoideum show traveling waves of signaling and generate a variety of complex wave forms during their morphogenesis…”
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Some Questions and Answers About the Role of Hox Temporal Collinearity in Vertebrate Axial Patterning by Durston, Antony J

“…The vertebrate anterior-posterior (A-P = craniocaudal) axis is evidently made by a timing mechanism. Evidence has accumulated that tentatively identifies the…”
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Hoxc6 loss of function truncates the main body axis in Xenopus by Zhu, Kongju, Spaink, Herman P., Durston, Antony J.

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Patterning of the Vertebrate Head in Time and Space by BMP Signaling by Zhu, Kongju, Spaink, Herman P, Durston, Antony J

“…How head patterning is regulated in vertebrates is yet to be understood. In this study, we show that frog embryos injected with Noggin at different blastula…”
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Two Tier Hox Collinearity Mediates Vertebrate Axial Patterning by Durston, Antony J

“…A two tier mechanism mediates Hox collinearity. Besides the familiar collinear chromatin modification within each Hox cluster (nanocollinearity), there is also…”
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Spiral waves and vertebrate embryonic handedness by Durston, Antony J, Peres, João, Cohen, Morrel H

“…During early embryonic development, the vertebrate main body axis is segmented from head-to-tail into somites. Somites emerge sequentially from the presomitic…”
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Axial patterning in snakes and caecilians: Evidence for an alternative interpretation of the Hox code by Woltering, Joost M., Vonk, Freek J., Müller, Hendrik, Bardine, Nabila, Tuduce, Ioana L., de Bakker, Merijn A.G., Knöchel, Walter, Sirbu, I. Ovidiu, Durston, Antony J., Richardson, Michael K.

“…It is generally assumed that the characteristic deregionalized body plan of species with a snake-like morphology evolved through a corresponding homogenization…”
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MiR-10 represses HoxB1a and HoxB3a in zebrafish by Woltering, Joost M, Durston, Antony J

“…The Hox genes are involved in patterning the anterior-posterior axis. In addition to the protein coding Hox genes, the miR-10, miR-196 and miR-615 families of…”
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Vertical signalling involves transmission of Hox information from gastrula mesoderm to neurectoderm by Bardine, Nabila, Lamers, Gerda, Wacker, Stephan, Donow, Cornelia, Knoechel, Walter, Durston, Antony

“…Development and patterning of neural tissue in the vertebrate embryo involves a set of molecules and processes whose relationships are not fully understood…”
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The zebrafish hoxDb cluster has been reduced to a single microRNA by Woltering, Joost M, Durston, Antony J

“…The zebrafish hoxDb cluster has been reduced to a single microRNA. The animal hox clusters consist of clustered homeodomain transcription factors involved in…”
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Extensive polycistronism and antisense transcription in the mammalian Hox clusters by Mainguy, Gaëll, Koster, Jan, Woltering, Joost, Jansen, Hans, Durston, Antony

“…The Hox clusters play a crucial role in body patterning during animal development. They encode both Hox transcription factor and micro-RNA genes that are…”
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XMeis3 is necessary for mesodermal Hox gene expression and function by In der Rieden, Paul M J, Jansen, Hans J, Durston, Antony J

“…Hox transcription factors provide positional information during patterning of the anteroposterior axis. Hox transcription factors can co-operatively bind with…”
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Xwnt8 directly initiates expression of labial Hox genes by In der Rieden, Paul M. J., Vilaspasa, Ferran Lloret, Durston, Antony J.

“…Hox transcription factors play an essential role in patterning the anteroposterior axis during embryogenesis and exhibit a complex array of spatial and…”
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Knockdown of the complete Hox paralogous group 1 leads to dramatic hindbrain and neural crest defects by McNulty, Claire L, Peres, João N, Bardine, Nabila, van den Akker, Willem M R, Durston, Antony J

“…The Hox paralogous group 1 (PG1) genes are the first and initially most anterior Hox genes expressed in the embryo. In Xenopus , the three PG1 genes, Hoxa1 ,…”
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Comparative functional analysis provides evidence for a crucial role for the homeobox gene Nkx2.1/Titf-1 in forebrain evolution by van den Akker, Willem M.R., Brox, Aurora, Puelles, Luis, Durston, Antony J., Medina, Loreta

“…Knockout of the Nkx2.1 (Titf‐1) homeobox gene in the mouse leads to severe malformation and size reduction of the basal telencephalon/preoptic area and basal…”
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Hox collinearity - a new perspective by Durston, Antony J, Jansen, Hans J, In der Rieden, Paul, Hooiveld, Michiel H W

“…Hox collinearity is a spectacular phenomenon that has excited life scientists since its discovery in 1978. Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain the…”
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