Identification and comparative expression analysis of a second wt1 gene in zebrafish

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 554-561

  Bollig, Frank ^a   Mehringer, Rebecca ^b,c   Perner, Birgit ^a   Hartung, Christina ^a   Schäfer, Matthias ^b   Schartl, Manfred ^b   Volff, Jean Nicolas ^b   Winkler, Christoph ^b   Englert, Christoph ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kidney development; Pronephros; Wilms' tumor

Indexed keywords

WT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GONADAL AGENESIS; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WT1 GENE; WT1A GENE; WT1B GENE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 30744454006     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20645     Document Type: Article

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