Hedgehog signalling controls eye degeneration in blind cavefish

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7010, 2004, Pages 844-847

  Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki ^a,c   Stock, David W ^b   Jeffery, William R ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PROTEINS; SIGNALING; VISION;

EYE DEGENERATION; HEDGEHOG SIGNALLING CONTROL; MIDLINE CONTROLS;

FISHERIES;

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; VISION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; BLINDNESS; CAVEFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EYE DEGENERATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FISH; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HH GENE; LENS; LENS IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELEOST; TWHH GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLINDNESS; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; EYE; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; ASTYANAX; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS MEXICANUS; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; ERINACEIDAE; FORBESICHTHYS AGASSIZII; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 7244255752     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02864     Document Type: Article

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