Purine-mediated signalling triggers eye development

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7165, 2007, Pages 1058-1062

  Massé, Karine ^a   Bhamra, Surinder ^a   Eason, Robert ^a   Dale, Nicholas ^a   Jones, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

CHROMOSOME; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUND; TOAD;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MEMBRANE FORMATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE SECTION;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 35548943233     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06189     Document Type: Article

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