A chick wingless mutation causes abnormality in maintenance of Fgf8 expression in the wing apical ridge, resulting in loss of the dorsoventral boundary

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-13

  Ohuchi, Hideyo ^a   Shibusawa, Mami ^b   Nakagawa, Takashi ^a   Ohata, Takeshi ^a   Yoshioka, Hidefumi ^a   Hirai, Yasokazu ^c   Nohno, Tsutomu ^d   Noji, Sumihare ^a   Kondo, Norio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Research Institute of Evolutionary Biology   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

apical ectodermal ridge; chick; dorsoventral boundary; Fgf8; limb development; wingless mutant

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MSX1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

EID: 17544386960     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00634-X     Document Type: Article

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