中国海洋湖沼学报（英文版）2004，Vol.22Issue(4)：392-398,7.
Hox genes and study of Hox genes in crustacean
Hox genes and study of Hox genes in crustacean
摘要
Abstract
Homeobox genes have been discovered in many species. These genes are known to play a major role in specifying regional identity along the anterior-posterior axis of animals from a wide range of phyla.The products of the homeotic genes are a set of evolutionarily conserved transcription factors that control elaborate developmental processes and specify cell fates in metazoans. Crustacean, presenting a variety of body plans not encountered in any other class or phylum of the Metazoa, has been shown to possess a single set of homologous Hox genes like insect. The ancestral crustacean Hox gene complex comprised ten genes: eight homologous to the hometic Hox genes and two related to nonhomeotic genes presented within the insect Hox complexes. The crustacean in particular exhibits an abundant diversity segment specialization and tagmosis. This morphological diversity relates to the Hox genes. In crustacean body plan, different Hox genes control different segments and tagmosis.关键词
Homeobox genes (HOM/Hox genes)/function/crustacean/segmentKey words
Homeobox genes (HOM/Hox genes)/function/crustacean/segment分类
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HOU Lin,CHEN Zhijuan,XU Mingyu,LIN Shengguo,WANG Lu..Hox genes and study of Hox genes in crustacean[J].中国海洋湖沼学报（英文版）,2004,22(4):392-398,7.基金项目
Project No. 30271035 supported by NSFC. （）
