Xiro, a Xenopus homolog of the Drosophila Iroquois complex genes, controls development at the neural plate

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 181-190

  Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^a,b   Glavic, Alvaro ^a   De La Calle Mustienes, Elisa ^b   Modolell, Juan ^b   Mayor, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Neural crest; Neural plate; Proneural genes; Xenopus; Xiro

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NOGGIN; PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECTODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0345267408     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.1.181     Document Type: Article

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