Genes controlling and mediating locomotion behavior of the zebrafish embryo and larva

Development

Volumn 123, Issue , 1996, Pages 399-413

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Abt Phys Biochem P   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Motor circuits; Motorneurons; Muscle development; Neuronal development; Reciprocal inhibition; Spinal cord; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOTONEURON; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUTANT; MYOBLAST; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SOMITES; TOUCH; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 12644302205     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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