Review: Time-space translation regulates trunk axial patterning in the early vertebrate embryo

Genomics

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 250-255

  Durston, A J ^a   Jansen, H J ^a   Wacker, S A ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activation; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Gastrulation; Hox genes; Transformation; Vertical Signalling; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; WNT PROTEIN;

AXIS; CELL MOTION; EMBRYO; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY PHYLOGENETIC POSITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; NEURAL PLATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952008956     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2009.11.002     Document Type: Review

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