Segmentation in vertebrates: Clock and gradient finally joined

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 2060-2067

  Aulehla, Alexander ^a,b   Herrmann, Bernhard G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

FGF signaling; Gradients in segmentation; Notch signaling; Segmentation clock; Somitogenesis; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

AXIN; AXIN 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; NOTCH RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY PATTERNING; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; VERTEBRATES; WNT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 4444256936     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1217404     Document Type: Review

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