Two tcf3 genes cooperate to pattern the zebrafish brain

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1937-1947

  Dorsky, Richard I ^a   Itoh, Motoyuki ^b   Moon, Randall T ^c   Chitnis, Ajay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Headless; Morphogen gradient; Neural patterning; Tcf3b; Wnt; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN TCF3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HMGB PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038635932     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00402     Document Type: Review

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