Xenopus frizzled 4 is a maternal mRNA and its zygotic expression is localized to the neuroectoderm and trunk lateral plate mesoderm

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 243-245

  Shi, De Li ^a   Boucaut, Jean Claude ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Frizzled; Lateral plate mesoderm; Presumptive neuroectoderm; Somite; Wnt; Xenopus; Xfz4

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SOMITE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LARVA; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034212370     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00294-X     Document Type: Article

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