Genetic analysis of dorsoventral pattern formation in the zebrafish: Requirement of a BMP-like ventralizing activity and its dorsal repressor

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 2452-2461

  Hammerschmidt, Matthias ^a,b   Serbedzija, George N ^a   McMahon, Andrew P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

BMP4; Danio rerio; dino; Dorsoventral pattern formation; noggin; Spemann's organizer; swirl; zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029802904     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.19.2452     Document Type: Article

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