Publication Date:
2002-08-24
Description:
The success of vertebrates was due in part to the acquisition and modification of jaws. Jaws are principally derived from the branchial arches, embryonic structures that exhibit proximodistal polarity. To investigate the mechanisms that specify the identity of skeletal elements within the arches, we examined mice lacking expression of Dlx5 and Dlx6, linked homeobox genes expressed distally but not proximally within the arches. Dlx5/6-/- mutants exhibit a homeotic transformation of lower jaws to upper jaws. We suggest that nested Dlx expression in the arches patterns their proximodistal axes. Evolutionary acquisition and subsequent refinement of jaws may have been dependent on modification of Dlx expression.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Depew, Michael J -- Lufkin, Thomas -- Rubenstein, John L R -- K02MH01046-01/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- T32DE07204/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Oct 11;298(5592):381-5. Epub 2002 Aug 22.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Nina Ireland Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, 401 Parnassus Avenue, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0984, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12193642" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biological Evolution
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*Body Patterning
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Branchial Region/embryology/physiology
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Ear Ossicles/embryology
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Gene Deletion
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Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
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*Genes, Homeobox
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Homeodomain Proteins/*genetics/physiology
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Mandible/anatomy & histology/*embryology
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Maxilla/anatomy & histology/*embryology
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Mice
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Morphogenesis
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Palate/embryology
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Skull/abnormalities/embryology
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Sphenoid Bone/embryology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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