Expression of zebrafish rag genes during early development identifies the thymus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 331-341

  Willett, Catherine E ^a   Zapata, Agustin G ^b   Hopkins, Nancy ^a   Steiner, Lisa A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 17344390804     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8446     Document Type: Article

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