title: The Hox-TALE has been wagging for a long time.
abstract: Hox and TALE proteins interact in a sea anemone, just as they do in flies and mice, indicating that the Hox-TALE system originated very early in animal evolution.
authors.affiliation: David EK Ferrier is at the Scottish Oceans Institute, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom dekf@st-andrews.ac.uk.
authors.forename: David E K
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Ferrier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000378:metabolism*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D014981:Xenopus / Q000378:metabolism*; D029867:Xenopus Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D029867:Xenopus Proteins
keywords: Hox; Nematostella vectensis; TALE; evolutionary developmental biology; network; transcription factors