The one-eyed pinhead gene functions in mesoderm and endoderm formation in zebrafish and interacts with no tail

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 327-342

  Schier, Alexander F ^a,d   Neuhauss, Stephan C F ^a   Helde, Kathryn Ann ^b   Talbot, William S ^c,d   Driever, Wolfgang ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyclopia; Endoderm; Floor plate; Forebrain; Goosecoid; No tail; Prechordal plate; Sonic hedgehog

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; MESODERM; MUSCLE; MUTANT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LITHIUM; MESODERM; MICE; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NOTOCHORD; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CYCLOPIA; DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0031040286     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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