Overexpression of the forebrain-specific homeobox gene six3 induces rostral forebrain enlargement in zebrafish

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2973-2982

  Kobayashi, Makoto ^a,d   Toyama, Reiko ^b   Takeda, Hiroyuki ^c   Dawid, Igor B ^b   Kawakami, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Eye; Homeobox; Optic stalk; Rostral forebrain; Sine oculis; Six3; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ECTODERM; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROECTODERM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC MARKERS; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROSENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0031691193     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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