Chicken Wnt genes
See the comparative table of all vertebrate Wnt genes for and explanation of the numbering/nomenclature.
gene |
Ref |
Phenotype (ectopic expression) |
| Wnt-1 | Hollyday 1995 | |
| Wnt-3A |
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| Wnt-4 | ||
| Wnt-5A | chondrogenic pattern formation in the chick limb bud Kawakami 1999 | |
| Wnt-6 | Neural crest inducer (Garcia-Castro, 2002) | |
| Wnt-7A | Dealy 1993 |
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| Wnt-7B | Hollyday 1995 | |
| Wnt-8B | Hollyday 1995 | |
| Wnt-8C | ||
| Wnt-9A (WNT14) |
Synovial joint formation |
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| Wnt-11 |
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Notes
The chicken Wnt-8C is probably the true ortholog of Xenopus Wnt-8A, as these genes are very similar. In addition, there are no other chicken Wnt-8 genes yet, nor have separate orthologs of CWnt-8C been cloned from the mouse and the human.
