Maternally supplied Smad5 is required for ventral specification in zebrafish embryos prior to zygotic Bmp signaling

Developmental Biology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 263-279

  Kramer, Carina ^a   Mayr, Thomas ^a   Nowak, Matthias ^a   Schumacher, Jennifer ^b   Runke, Greg ^b   Bauer, Hermann ^a   Wagner, Daniel S ^b   Schmid, Bettina ^b   Imai, Yoshiyuki ^c   Talbot, William S ^c   Mullins, Mary C ^b   Hammerschmidt, Matthias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bmp2b; Bmp7; Body size; Dorsoventral patterning; Enhancer screen; Maternal effect; Oogenesis; Smad5; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2B; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH; ZYGOTE;

AMORPHA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0036399628     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(02)90805-5     Document Type: Article

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