Chicken CITED3 (cCITED3) is a novel gene, which is expressed in the pre-sem
itic mesoderm, the mesonephric tubules, the Wolffian ducts and collecting t
ubules of the developing urogenital system and in the cranial sensory gangl
ia. Sequence analysis revealed that cCITED3 encodes a protein which contain
s two conserved domains that have been described for members of the CITED f
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