The mouse rostral cerebellar malformation gene encodes an UNC-5-like protein

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6627, 1997, Pages 838-842

  Ackerman, Susan L ^a   Kozak, Leslie P ^a   Przyborski, Stefan A ^a   Rund, Laurie A ^a,b   Boyer, Bert B ^a,c   Knowles, Barbara B ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; CEREBELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0030964393     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386838a0     Document Type: Article

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