The Xenopus arx gene is expressed in the developing rostral forebrain

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 608-612

  El Hodiri, Heithem M ^a,b   Qi, Xiu Lan ^a   Seufert, Daniel W ^a  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristaless; arx; Forebrain; Homeobox gene; Telencephalon

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELENCEPHALON; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0037277452     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0282-8     Document Type: Article

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