Table 1.

Endoderm markers and chick orthologues

Name	Synonym	Domain		Genbank	EST or Ensembl number
Gata4		Zinc finger protein	G	XM_420041
Gata5	Faust	Zinc finger protein	G	U11888
Gata6		Zinc finger protein	G	U11889
Foxa1	Hnf3a Tcf3a	Forkhead-domain factor	X	NM_204088	No chick orthologue
Foxa2	Hnf3b Tcf3b?	Forkhead-domain factor	G	NM_204770
Hnf1b	vHNF1 Tcf2	Homeobox	D H X	AF244140 X71348 XLXLFB3	ENSGALG00000005504
Hnf4a		Zinc finger domain	G	BG711675	pg11n.pk0008.m3
Hnf6	Onecut1	Homeobox	H	NM_004498	ENSGALG00000004551
Casanova	Cas Sox7?	Sox	D	AAK14780
XSox17a1/2		Sox	G	BM439840	pgr1n.pk001.g24
XSox17b		Sox	X	AAT71997
CMIX	Mix.1	Paired-like homeodomain factor	X G	P21711 NM204990
Mix.2	tMix	Paired-like homeodomain factor	X X	Q91685 AAC60020	No chick orthologue
Mixer	Mix.3	Paired-like homeodomain factor	X	AF068263	No chick orthologue
Milk	Bix2	Paired-like homeodomain factor	X X	AF005999 AF079560	No chick orthologue
Bix1	Mix.4	Paired-like homeodomain factor	X	AF079559	No chick orthologue
Bix3		Paired-like homeodomain factor	X	AF079561	No chick orthologue
Bix4	tBix	Paired-like homeodomain factor	X	AF079562	No chick orthologue
Cerberus		TGFbeta signal antagonist	G	AF139721
Endodermin	Edd		X G	L63543 NW_100702	Similar to alpha-2-macroglobulin ChEST251e24 ChEST729e9 ChEST400g4 no orthologue
Eomesodermin	Eomes	T-box factor	M	O54839	ENSGAGL00000011424
Edd	Ubiquitin ligase	HECT domain	G G G	BU399139 BU412297 BU210891	ChEST492h4 ChEST167b13 ChEST39l14
Hex	Prh Xhex	Homeobox	G	Q05502
Lim1	Lhx1 Xlim1	Cysteine rich motif -LIM domain	X G	X63889 L35569	ENSGALG00000005409
mafA		Basic-leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor	G	NM_205025
Pax6		Paired box, and homeodomain	G	NM_205066
Tbx6L	VegT, TbxL	T-box factor	G X	Gi62554175 NM_203527	ENSGALG00000006374
Xlhbox8	Ipf1 Pdx-1 Idx-1 Stf-1 Iuf-1	Homeobox	X G	X16849 XM_425635