Fgf8 is mutated in zebrafish acerebellar (ace) mutants and is required for maintenance of midbrain-hindbrain boundary development and somitogenesis

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2381-2395

  Reifers, Frank ^a   Böhli, Heike ^a   Walsh, Emily C ^b   Crossley, Phillip H ^b   Stainier, Didier Y R ^b   Brand, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acerebellar; Axis specification; Danio rerio; Fgf8; Hindbrain; Midbrain; Neurogenesis; No isthmus; Organizer; Pax genes; Regionalization; Somitogenesis; Splicing; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOMEOBOX; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MARKER GENE; MESENCEPHALON; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOMITE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA PROBES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOMITES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0031926506     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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