The homeobox gene Siamois is a target of the Wnt dorsalisation pathway and triggers organiser activity in the absence of mesoderm

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3055-3065

  Carnac, Gilles ^a,b   Kodjabachian, Laurent ^c   Gurdon, J B ^a,b   Lemaire, Patrick ^a,b,c  

^a WELLCOME CRC INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Chordin; Dorsalisation; Embryonic axis; Goosecoid; Late blastula organiser; Neural induction; Nieuwkoop centre; Noggin; Siamois; Spemann organiser; Wnt signalling; Xenopus; Xnr 3; Xwnt 8

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FETAL PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INHIBINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029832381     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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