The role of maternal VegT in establishing the primary germ layers in Xenopus embryos

Cell

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 515-524

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Houston, Douglas W ^a   King, Mary Lou ^a   Payne, Christopher ^c   Wylie, Christopher ^c   Heasman, Janet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GERM LAYER; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032555692     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81592-5     Document Type: Article

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