Overexpression of the homeobox gene Xnot-2 leads to notochord formation in Xenopus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 174-178

  Gont, Linda K ^a   Fainsod, Abraham ^a,b   Kim, Sung Hyun ^a   De Robertis, Eddy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029944438     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0061     Document Type: Article

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