Relationship between the genomic organization and the overlapping embryonic expression patterns of the zebrafish dlx genes

Genomics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 580-590

  Ellies, Debra L ^a,c   Stock, David W ^b   Hatch, Gary ^a   Giroux, Genny ^a   Weiss, Kenneth M ^b   Ekker, Marc ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031281266     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4978     Document Type: Article

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