Expression pattern of an axolotl floor plate-specific fork head gene reflects early developmental differences between frogs and salamanders

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-151

  Whiteley, Mary ^a   Mathers, Peter H ^a   Jamrich, Milan ^a  

^a Division of Bacterial Products   (United States)

Author keywords

axolotl; floor plate; gastrulation; notochord; Xenopus fork head

Indexed keywords

RNA;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FROG; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; XENOPUS;

AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; ANURA; CAUDATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030932564     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1997)20:2<145::AID-DVG7>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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