Thylacine 1 is expressed segmentally within the paraxial mesoderm of the Xenopus embryo and interacts with the Notch pathway

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2041-2051

  Sparrow, Duncan B ^a   Jen, Wui Chuong ^b   Kotecha, Surendra ^a   Towers, Norma ^a   Kintner, Chris ^b   Mohun, Timothy J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

bHLH protein; Delta; Mesp2; Notch; Paraxial mesoderm; Segmentation; Somites; Thylacine; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MARKER GENE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOMITES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0031860576     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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