Two zebrafish Notch-dependent hairy/Enhancer-of-split-related genes, her6 and her4, are required to maintain the coordination of cyclic gene expression in the presomitic mesoderm

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1529-1541

  Pasini, Andrea ^a,c   Jing, Yun Jin ^b,d   Wilkinson, David G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Her4; Her6; Notch; Segmentation clock; Somites; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2342420268     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01031     Document Type: Article

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