The zebrafish orphan nuclear receptor genes nr2e1 and nr2e3 are expressed in developing eye and forebrain

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 521-528

  Kitambi, Satish Srinivas ^a   Hauptmann, Giselbert ^a  

^a School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Danio rerio; Epiphysis; Eye; Forebrain; Orphan nuclear receptor; Photoreceptor; Pineal; Pnr; Retina; Tailless; Tll; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; PROTEIN NR2E1; PROTEIN NR2E3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IRIS; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TELENCEPHALON; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33846590514     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.modgep.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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