Zebrafish rx3 and mab21l2 are required during eye morphogenesis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 336-349

  Kennedy, Breandán N ^a,b   Stearns, George W ^a   Smyth, Vincent A ^b   Ramamurthy, Visvanathan ^a   Van Eeden, Fredericius ^c   Ankoudinova, Irina ^a   Raible, David ^d   Hurley, James B ^a   Brockerhoff, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

(chk); chokh; days post fertilization; dpf; Eye development; mab21l2; Mutagenesis; retinal homeobox; Retinal homeobox; Retinal progenitor; retinal progenitor cell; RPC; Rx; wild type; WT; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; MICROPHTHALMIA; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 2942530776     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.02.026     Document Type: Article

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