Mutations affecting the formation of the notochord in the zebrafish, Danio rerio

Development

Volumn 123, Issue , 1996, Pages 103-115

  Odenthal, Jörg ^a   Haffter, Pascal ^a   Vogelsang, Elisabeth ^a,b   Brand, Michael ^a,c   Van Eeden, Fredericus J M ^a   Furutani Seiki, Makoto ^a   Granato, Michael ^a,f   Hammerschmidt, Matthias ^a,d   Heisenberg, Carl Philipp ^a   Jiang, Yun Jin ^a   Kane, Donald A ^a,e   Kelsh, Robert N ^a,e   Mullins, Mary C ^a,f   Warga, Rachel M ^a,e   Allende, Miguel L ^a,g   Weinberg, Eric S ^a,f   Nüsslein Volhard, Christiane ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

doc; floating head; Floor plate; momo; Muscle pioneer cells; no tail; Notochord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; MESODERM; MUSCLE CELL; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; STEM CELL; TRUNK; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; GENETIC MARKERS; MESODERM; MUTATION; NOTOCHORD; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 12644299615     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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