The midbrain-hindbrain boundary genetic cascade is activated ectopically in the diencephalon in response to the widespread expression of one of its components, the medaka gene Ol-eng2

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3769-3779

  Ristoratore, Filomena ^a   Carl, Matthias ^b,e   Deschet, Karine ^a   Richard Parpaillon, Laurent ^c   Boujard, Daniel ^c   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^b,e   Chourrout, Daniel ^a,d   Bourrat, Franck ^a   Joly, Jean Stéphane ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Ectopic expression; engrailed; Fgf8; Fish; Forebrain; Homeobox; Isthmus; Medaka; Neurogenesis; Ol eng2; Pax2; RNA injection; Wnt1; Xenopus; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; FISH; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HOMEOBOX; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032863566     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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