The zebrafish bonnie and clyde gene encodes a Mix family homeodomain protein that regulates the generation of endodermal precursors

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1279-1289

  Kikuchi, Yutaka ^a   Trinh, Le A ^a,b   Reiter, Jeremy F ^a   Alexander, Jonathan ^a   Yelon, Deborah ^b   Stainier, Didier Y R ^a  

^a Departments of Anatomy   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclops; Gut; Paired class homeodomain; sox17; Squint

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INTESTINE; MESODERM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODERM; FEMALE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

CYCLOPS; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034657309     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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