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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Petr Tvrdik
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-5126 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Developmental cell 20060801 2
In vertebrates, paralogous Hox genes play diverse biological roles. We examined the interchangeability of Hoxa1 and Hoxb1 in mouse development by swapping their protein-coding regions. Remarkably, the mice expressing the Hox-B1 protein from the Hoxa1 locus, and vice versa, are essentially normal. We noted, nonetheless, a specific facial nerve hypomorphism in hemizygous Hoxb1(A1/-) mice and decreased viability in homozygous Hoxa1(B1/B1) embryos. Further, we established a mouse line in which we ha ...[more]