Regulation of the tinman homologues in Xenopus embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-79

  Sparrow, Duncan B ^a   Cai, Chenleng ^b   Kotecha, Surendra ^a   Latinkic, Branko ^a   Cooper, Brian ^a   Towers, Norma ^a   Evans, Sylvia M ^b   Mohun, Timothy J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

GATA; Heart; Transcription; Xenopus; XNkx2 10; XNkx2 3; XNkx2 5

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0034332488     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2000.9891     Document Type: Article

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