Induction of the zebrafish ventral brain and floorplate requires cyclops/nodal signalling

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6698, 1998, Pages 185-189

  Sampath, Karuna ^a,b   Rubinstein, Amy L ^c   Cheng, Abby M S ^a   Liang, Jennifer O ^c   Fekany, Kimberly ^d   Solnica Krezel, Lilianna ^d   Korzh, Vladimir ^b   Halpern, Marnie E ^c   Wright, Christopher V E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE MUTATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GASTRULA; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CYCLOPIA; CYCLOPS; DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032505052     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26020     Document Type: Article

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