Intronic enhancers control expression of zebrafish sonic hedgehog in floor plate and notochord

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2103-2116

  Muller F ^a   Chang, B E ^a   Albert, S ^a   Fischer, N ^a   Tora, L ^a   Strahle U ^a  

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

Author keywords

Co injection; Enhancer; Floor plate; Gene regulation; HNF3 ; Mouse transgenic; Notochord; Sonic hedgehog; T box; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; INTRONS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOTOCHORD; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344171940     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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