An indelible lineage marker for Xenopus using a mutated green fluorescent protein

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3719-3724

  Zernicka Goetz, M ^b,c   Pines, J ^b   Ryan, K ^b   Siemering, K R ^a   Haseloff, J ^a   Evans, M J ^b   Gurdon, J B ^b  

^a WELLCOME CRC INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cell lineage; Eomes; GFP.RN3; Green fluorescent protein; Marker; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; BLASTULA; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MUSCLES; MUTATION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0030477865     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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