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ReviewDevelopmental biology2010

Hox genes and regional patterning of the vertebrate body plan.

Moises Mallo, Deneen M Wellik, Jacqueline Deschamps

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Review in Developmental biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 246 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
246citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

246 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 540 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Moises MalloInstituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal. mallo@igc.gulbenkian.pt
Deneen M Wellik
Jacqueline Deschamps
University of Lisbon · PTUniversity of Michigan · USUtrecht University · NL

Funding

Molecular Genetics of Hox Genes and Kidney DevelopmentR01DK071929 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WELLIK, DENEEN M · 2006 to 2010
$1.5M
Hox Genes in Limb PatterningR01AR057018 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WELLIK, DENEEN M · 2009 to 2010
$745k
NIAMS NIH HHS AR057018NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR057018NIDDK NIH HHS DK071929NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK071929
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several decades have passed since the discovery of Hox genes in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Their unique ability to regulate morphologies along the anteroposterior (AP) axis (Lewis, 1978) earned them well-deserved attention as important regulators of embryonic development. Phenotypes due to loss- and gain-of-function mutations in mouse Hox genes have revealed that the spatio-temporally controlled expression of these genes is critical for the correct morphogenesis of embryonic axial structures. Here, we review recent novel insight into the modalities of Hox protein function in imparting specific identity to anatomical regions of the vertebral column, and in controlling the emergence of these tissues concomitantly with providing them with axial identity. The control of these functions must have been intimately linked to the shaping of the body plan during evolution.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenes, HomeoboxAnimalsBody PatterningBody SizeDevelopmental BiologyDrosophila melanogasterHomeodomain ProteinsHumansMiceModels, BiologicalMutationPhenotypeVertebratesHomeodomain Proteins

Identifiers

PMID20435029
PMCPMC2909379
OpenAlexW2113300574

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