Teasing out T-box targets in early mesoderm

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 418-425

  Wardle, Fiona C ^a   Papaioannou, Virginia E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; EOMESODERMIN; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT1 PROTEIN;

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC LINKAGE; MESODERM; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESODERM; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; METAZOA;

EID: 56049094776     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.07.017     Document Type: Review

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