Characterization of hey bHLH genes in teleost fish

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 213, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 541-553

  Winkler, Christoph ^a   Elmasri, Harun ^a   Klamt, Barbara ^a   Volff, Jean Nicolas ^a   Gessler, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

bHLH; Delta notch targets; Heart development; Hey genes; Somitogenesis

Indexed keywords

FISH PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MESODERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; TELEOST; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; TAKIFUGU; TETRAODONTIFORMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOST FISH; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODON; TETRAODON NIGROVIRIDIS; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345602147     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-003-0360-6     Document Type: Article

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