Cloning and developmental expression of the Xenopus Nkx6 genes

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 217, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 477-483

  Zhao, Shuhua ^a,b   Jiang, Huifeng ^a,b   Wang, Wen ^a   Mao, Bingyu ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Expression pattern; Nkx6; Pancreas; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; ESOPHAGUS; LUNG; MANDIBLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEURAL TUBE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; STOMACH; TADPOLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34250010090     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-007-0155-2     Document Type: Article

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