Zebrafish contains two Pax6 genes involved in eye development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-196

  Nornes, Svanhild ^a   Clarkson, Michael ^b   Mikkola, Ingvild ^a   Pedersen, Marit ^a   Bardsley, Anne ^c   Martinez, Juan Pedro ^c   Krauss, Stefan ^a,c   Johansen, Terje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eye development; Gene duplication; Pax6; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE DUPLICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0031728189     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00156-7     Document Type: Article

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