Redundant early and overlapping larval roles of Xsox17 subgroup genes in Xenopus endoderm development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 337-348

  Clements, Debbie ^a,b   Cameleyre, Isabelle ^a   Woodland, Hugh R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endoderm; Gut; Morpholino; Xenopus; Xsox17

Indexed keywords

OLIGOPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN XSOX17 ALPHA1; PROTEIN XSOX17 ALPHA2; PROTEIN XSOX17 BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; XENOPUS;

XENOPUS;

EID: 0037362059     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00450-1     Document Type: Article

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