Molecular Targets of Vertebrate Segmentation: Two Mechanisms Control Segmental Expression of Xenopus hairy2 during Somite Formation

Developmental Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 553-565

  Davis, Robert L ^a   Turner, David L ^b   Evans, Louise M ^a   Kirschner, Marc W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HAIRY2 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RNA; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; SOMITE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA; SOMITES; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0035487025     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(01)00054-5     Document Type: Article

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