Genes establishing dorsoventral pattern formation in the zebrafish embryo: The ventral specifying genes

Development

Volumn 123, Issue , 1996, Pages 81-93

  Mullins, Mary C ^a,b   Hammerschmidt, Matthias ^a,c   Kane, Donald A ^a,d   Odenthal, Jörg ^a   Brand, Michael ^a,e   Van Eeden, Fredericus J M ^a   Furutani Seiki, Makoto ^a   Granato, Michael ^a   Haffter, Pascal ^a   Heisenberg, Carl Philipp ^a   Jiang, Yun Jin ^a   Kelsh, Robert N ^a,d   Nüsslein Volhard, Christiane ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsalized mutant; Dorsoventral axis; Gastrulation; Maternal effect; Pattern formation; Tailbud; Ventral determination; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MESODERM; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; GENES, DOMINANT; MALE; MESODERM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; VARIATION (GENETICS); ZEBRAFISH; ZYGOTE;

EID: 12644283530     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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