Loss of eyes in zebrafish caused by mutation of chokh/rx 3

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 894-899

  Loosli, Felix ^a   Staub, Wendy ^b   Finger Baier, Karin C ^b   Ober, Elke A ^b   Verkade, Heather ^b   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^a   Baier, Herwig ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RX.3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; TELEOST; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL TISSUE; CHOKH GENE; GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTANT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ORYZIAS; PRIMORDIUM; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; RX3 GENE;

ANIMALS; EYE ABNORMALITIES; EYE PROTEINS; FISH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; POINT MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142248405     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor919     Document Type: Article

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