“…In the chicken midbrain, expression of Meis1/2 was confirmed (Ferran et al, 2007, Agoston andBobak et al, 2009;Coy and Borycki, 2010), as also observed in Xenopus (Maeda et al, 2001(Maeda et al, , 2002, zebrafish (Biemar et al, 2001;Waskiewicz et al, 2001;Zerucha and Prince, 2001), mouse (Cecconi et al, 1997;Oulad-Abdelghani et al, 1997;Shim et al, 2007), and human (Larsen et al, 2010). Our isoform analysis by RT-PCR showed that Meis2A.1 is slightly more expressed in the chicken during development and postnatal stages.…”