Otx and Emx functions in patterning of the vertebrate rostral head

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 1997, Pages 545-553

  Matsuo, I ^a   Suda, Y ^a   Yoshida, M ^a   Ueki, T ^a   Kimura, C ^a   Kuratani, S ^a   Aizawa, S ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ENDODERM; FOREBRAIN; HEAD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THELAZIA; ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; ISTHMIC ORGANIZER; MESENCEPHALON; VERTEBRATE;

THELAZIA; VERTEBRATA;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EMX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EID: 0031448461     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1997.062.01.061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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