The role of the zebrafish nodal-related genes squint and cyclops in patterning of mesendoderm

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1837-1851

  Dougan, Scott T ^a,d   Warga, Rachel M ^b   Kene, Donald A ^b   Schier, Alexander F ^c   Talbot, William S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsoventral axis; Gastrulation; Mesoderm; Nodal signals; Spemann organizers; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLASTULA; CELL FATE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MESODERM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ENDODERM; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CYCLOPS; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038636036     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00400     Document Type: Review

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