Zebrafish pax8 is required for otic placode induction and plays a redundant role with Pax2 genes in the maintenance of the otic placode

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 371-382

  Mackereth, Melinda D ^a   Kwak, Su Jin ^b   Fritz, Andreas ^a   Riley, Bruce B ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

distal less; Fibroblast growth factor; forkhead; Genetic network; msxC; Otic placode; Paired; Preplacodal domain

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; FERTILIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HAIR CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INNER EAR; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ZEBRA FISH;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; CELL LINEAGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EAR; EXONS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 13944250688     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01587     Document Type: Article

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