The Cerberus-related gene, Cerr1, is not essential for mouse head formation

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 253-258

  Shawlot, William ^a,b   Deng, Jian Min ^a   Wakamiya, Maki ^a   Behringer, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MARKER GENE; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; XENOPUS CERBERUS;

EID: 0342656947     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1526-968X(200004)26:4<253::AID-GENE60>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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