Cloning and expression of the quaking gene in the zebrafish embryo

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 209-213

  Tanaka, Hidekazu ^a,c   Abe, Kuniya ^b   Kim, Cheol Hee ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaxial cells; Alternative splicing; Body trunk; Cardiac sac; Development; Embryo; Evolution; Gastrulation; Homologue; Hypomyelination; Insertion; KH domain; Maternal; Myelination; Nervous system; Neural crest; Neural keel; Paraxial mesoderm; Pectoral finbud; qkI; Quaking; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; RNA binding; Snaill; Somites; Tailbud; who how struthio; Whole mount in situ hybridization; Zebrafish; zqk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZEBRA FISH; ZYGOTE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL CREST; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; STRUTHIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031431129     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00164-0     Document Type: Article

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