Maternal β-catenin establishes a 'dorsal signal' in early Xenopus embryos

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2987-2996

  Wylie, C ^a   Kofron, M ^a   Payne, C ^a   Anderson, R ^a   Hosobuchi, M ^b   Joseph, E ^b   Heasman, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Armadillo; Dorsal signal; Midblastula transition; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; AXIS; BETA CATENIN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; MESODERM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029846334     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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