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Definition of Hox

Hox
Hox Hox, v. t. [See Hock. [root]??.] To hock; to hamstring. See Hock. [Obs.] --Shak.

Meaning of Hox from wikipedia

- Hox genes, a subset of homeobox genes, are a group of related genes that specify regions of the body plan of an embryo along the head-tail axis of animals...
- Hox or HOX may refer to: Hox gene Hoxton railway station, in London Joop Hox (born 1949), Dutch psychologist House of X and Powers of X This disambiguation...
- ANTP-class clusters, Hox, ParaHox, and NK (MetaHox), are the result of segmental duplications. A first duplication created MetaHox and ProtoHox, the latter of...
- The ParaHox gene cluster is an array of homeobox genes (involved in morphogenesis, the regulation of patterns of anatomical development) from the Gsx...
- Josephus Johannes Cornelis Maria (Joop) Hox (born 1949) is a Dutch psychologist and Professor of Social Science Methodology at the Utrecht University...
- case of the Hox gene, a shared ancestral ProtoHox cluster was duplicated, resulting in genetic clusters in the Hox gene as well as the ParaHox gene, an evolutionary...
- and the Acoelomorpha (three Hox clusters). In the vertebrates, duplication resulted in the four Hox clusters (HoxA to HoxD) of mammals and birds, while...
- Antennapedia (abbreviated Antp) is a Hox gene first discovered in Drosophila which controls the formation of legs during development. Loss-of-function...
- Hox genes play a m****ive role in some amphibians and reptiles in their ability to regenerate lost limbs, especially HoxA and HoxD genes. If the processes...
- limb bud, expression of specific Hox genes varies as a function of the position along the anterior-posterior axis. The Hox genes are linked in four chromosomal...