Zebrafish Mesp family genes, mesp-a and mesp-b are segmentally expressed in the presomitic mesoderm, and Mesp-b confers the anterior identity to the developing somites

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1691-1702

  Sawada, Atsushi ^a   Fritz, Andreas ^b   Jiang, Yun Jin ^c   Yamamoto, Akihito ^d,g   Yamasu, Kyo ^e   Kuroiwa, Atsushi ^a   Saga, Yumiko ^f   Takeda, Hiroyuki ^a,h  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mesp2; Notch signalling,fused; Segmentation; Somites; Somitogenesis; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOMITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034090969     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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