gbx2 Homeobox Gene Is Required for the Maintenance of the Isthmic Region in the Zebrafish Embryonic Brain

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 433-450

  Kikuta, Hiroshi ^a   Kanai, Maiko ^a   Ito, Yukiko ^a   Yamasu, Kyo ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; gbx2; Isthmus; Midbrain hindbrain boundary; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; DNA ISOLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENG2 GENE; GASTRULATION; GBX2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; KROX20 GENE; MARKER GENE; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OTX2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; WNT1 GENE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

CYCLOPIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242558206     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10409     Document Type: Article

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