Xenopus frizzled-2 is expressed highly in the developing eye, otic vesicle and somites

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 229-233

  Deardorff, Matthew A ^a   Klein, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Expression; Eye; Frizzled 2; Otic vesicle; Presomitic mesoderm; rfz2; Somite; Xenopus laevis; xfz2

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMITE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EAR; EYE; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOTOCHORD; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOMITES; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032869410     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00161-6     Document Type: Article

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