Genomic analysis of Xenopus organizer function

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hufton, Andrew L ^a   Vinayagam, Arunachalam ^b   Suhai, Sándor ^b   Baker, Julie C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NOGGIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; WNT PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DKK1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; NOGGIN PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GASTRULATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOMIC IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; SECOND CERVICAL VERTEBRA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AXIS; BODY PATTERNING; CARRIER PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 33746291563     PISSN: 1471213X     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-6-27     Document Type: Article

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