Periodic repression of Notch pathway genes governs the segmentation of Xenopus embryos

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1486-1499

  Jen, Wui Chuong ^a,b   Gawantka, Volker ^c   Follet, Nicolas ^c   Niehrs, Christof ^c   Kintner, Chris ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

bHLH; Delta; ESR; Notch; Segmentation; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC CODE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033152436     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.11.1486     Document Type: Article

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