Patterning the zebrafish axial skeleton requires early chordin function

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 442-446

  Fisher, Shannon ^a   Halpern, Marnie E ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN INHIBITOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032707236     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70557     Document Type: Article

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