Upstream and downstream from Brachyury, a gene required for vertebrate mesoderm formation

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 1997, Pages 337-346

  Smith, J C ^a   Armes, N A ^a   Conlon, F L ^a   Tada, M ^a   Umbhauer, M ^b   Weston, K M ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GENE PRODUCT; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRACHYURY GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MESODERMAL CELL; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031462955     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1997.062.01.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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