Dorsal determinants in the Xenopus egg are firmly associated with the vegetal cortex and behave like activators of the Wnt pathway

Developmental Biology

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-79

  Marikawa, Yusuke ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Elinson, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031282119     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8710     Document Type: Article

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