Completing the set of h/E(spl) cyclic genes in zebrafish: her12 and her15 reveal novel modes of expression and contribute to the segmentation clock

Developmental Biology

Volumn 304, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 615-632

  Shankaran, Sunita S ^a   Sieger, Dirk ^a   Schröter, Christian ^b   Czepe, Carmen ^a   Pauly, Marie Christin ^a   Laplante, Mary A ^c   Becker, Thomas S ^c   Oates, Andrew C ^b   Gajewski, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

bHLH transcription factor; Cyclic h E(spl) genes; Segmentation clock; Somitogenesis

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; HER12 GENE; HER15 GENE; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34047139349     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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