Multiple Wnts are involved in Hydra organizer formation and regeneration

Developmental Biology

Volumn 330, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 186-199

  Lengfeld, Tobias ^a   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Simakov, Oleg ^a   Lindgens, Dirk ^b   Gee, Lydia ^b   Law, Lee ^b   Schmidt, Heiko A ^c,d   Özbek, Suat ^a   Bode, Hans ^b   Holstein, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Cnidaria; Hydra; Organizer; Regeneration; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

WNT3 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BUDDING; CELL POLARITY; COELENTERATE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAZOON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGENERATION; WILD TYPE;

AMPHIBIA; CHORDATA; CNIDARIA; HYDRA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 66949173166     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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