Predictability of dorso-ventral asymmetry in the cleavage stage zebrafish embryo: An analysis using lithium sensitivity as a dorso-ventral marker

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-41

  Aanstad, Pia ^a   Whitaker, Michael ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dorso ventral axis specification; Lithium; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FLUORESCENT DYES; GUANOSINE 5'-O-(3-THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); LITHIUM; MICROINJECTIONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0032851273     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00171-9     Document Type: Article

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