Zebrafish organizer development and germ-layer formation require nodal- related signals

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6698, 1998, Pages 181-185

  Feldman, Benjamin ^a   Gates, Michael A ^a   Egan, Elizabeth S ^a   Dougan, Scott T ^a   Rennebeck, Gabriela ^a   Sirotkin, Howard I ^a   Schier, Alexander F ^a   Talbot, William S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BODY PATTERNING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GASTRULA; GERM LAYERS; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OVUM; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CYCLOPS; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032505101     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26013     Document Type: Article

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