Functional and hierarchical interactions among zebrafish vox/vent homeobox genes

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 494-508

  Gilardeili, Claudio N ^a   Pozzoli, Ombretta ^a   Sordina, Paolo ^b   Matassi, Giorgio ^b   Cotelli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

BMP signaling; Dorsoventral axis; Homeobox genes; Transcriptional regulation; Zebrafish embryo

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DORSAL FACTOR; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENT PROTEIN; VOX PROTEIN;

ALK8 GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BMP2B GENE; BMP7 GENE; BOZOZOK GENE; CHD GENE; CHORDINO GENE; DELETION MUTANT; DHARMA GENE; DORSOVENTRAL AXIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GASTRULA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GOOSECOID GENE; GSC GENE; HOMEOBOX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD5 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VED GENE; VEGA1 GENE; VEGA2 GENE; VENT GENE; VOX GENE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MICROINJECTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042512342     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20073     Document Type: Article

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