Analysis of penetrance and expressivity during ontogenesis supports a stochastic choice of zebrafish odorant receptors from predetermined groups of receptor genes

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 833-843

  Argo, Silke ^a   Weth, Franco ^b   Korsching, Sigrun I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Gene regulation; Olfaction; Olfactory sensory neuron; Sensory systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ZEBRA FISH; ZOR1 GENE; ZOR10 GENE; ZOR2 GENE; ZOR3 GENE; ZOR4 GENE; ZOR5 GENE; ZOR6A GENE; ZOR7 GENE; ZOR8 GENE; ZOR9 GENE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PENETRANCE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; STATISTICS; STEM CELLS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 12244268626     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02505.x     Document Type: Article

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