Three Wnt genes expressed in a wide variety of tissues during development of the zebrafish, Danio rerio: Developmental and evolutionary perspectives

Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-13

  Blader, Patrick ^a,b   Strähle, Uwe ^a,b   Ingham, Philip W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Brain; Neural tube; Presomitic mesoderm; Tailbud; Viscera; Wnt; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747293845     PISSN: 0930035X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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