The molecular nature of the zebrafish tail organizer

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6947, 2003, Pages 448-452

  Agathon, Antoine ^a   Thisse, Christine ^a   Thisse, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BONE;

ZEBRAFISH TAIL ORGANIZER;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN NODAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT8 PROTEIN;

FISH; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GASTRULATION; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041530319     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01822     Document Type: Letter

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