The entire zebrafish blastula-gastrula margin acts as an organizer dependent on the ratio of Nodal to BMP activity

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 3811-3819

  Fauny, Jean Daniel ^a   Thisse, Bernard ^a,b   Thisse, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastula; BMP; Gastrula; Margin; Nodal; Organizer; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN NODAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BLASTULA; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; GASTRULA; NODAL PROTEIN; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70450206973     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.039693     Document Type: Article

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