Promoting notochord fate and repressing muscle development in zebrafish axial mesoderm

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1397-1406

  Amacher, Sharon L ^a   Kimmel, Charles B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Floating head; Floor plate; Genetic mosaic; Myogenesis; no tail; not genes; Spadetail; Xnot

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; GASTRULA; MESODERM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GASTRULA; MESODERM; MODELS, GENETIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NOTOCHORD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031839402     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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