Two novel chick T-box genes related to mouse Brachyury are expressed in different, non-overlapping mesodermal domains during gastrulation

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 411-419

  Knezevic, Vladimir ^a   De Santo, Ronald ^a   Mackem, Susan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Brachyury; Chick embryo; FGF; Gastrulation; Notochord; Primitive streak; Retinoic acid; Somitogenesis; T box

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FETAL PROTEINS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031054570     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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