Zebrafish VEGF receptors: A guideline to nomenclature

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Bussmann, Jeroen ^a   Lawson, Nathan ^b   Zon, Leonard ^c   Schulte Merker, Stefan ^a   Ekker, Marc ^d   Mullins, Mary ^e   Postlethwait, John ^f   Westerfield, Monte ^f  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; KDR LIKE GENE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; VERTEBRATE;

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VERTEBRATES; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 44949118532     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000064     Document Type: Article

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