Expression of the Xvax2 gene demarcates presumptive ventral telencephalon and specific visual structures in Xenopus laevis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 115-118

  Liu, Ying ^a   Lupo, Giuseppe ^b   Marchitiello, Anna ^c   Gestri, Gaia ^b   He, Rong Qiao ^a   Banfi, Sandro ^c   Barsacchi, Giuseppina ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Dipto di Fisiologia e Biochimica   (Italy)

^c TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anterior neural plate; Optic chiasm; Optic stalk nerve; vax genes; Ventral retina; Ventral telencephalon; Xenopus embryo

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METAMORPHOSIS; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELENCEPHALON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE; GENE LIBRARY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETINA; TELENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0035211887     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00505-0     Document Type: Article

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