Extending the family table: Insights from beyond vertebrates into the regulation of embryonic development by FGFs

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 214-227

  Tulin, Sarah ^a   Stathopoulos, Angelike ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of signaling; FGF signaling; Invertebrate models

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 18; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 19; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 23; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 5; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 6; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ARTHROPOD; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COELENTERATE; DNA SPLICING; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ECHINODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INVERTEBRATE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEMATODE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; VERTEBRATES; ZEBRAFISH;

ACTINIARIA; ANURA; DANIO RERIO; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956682916     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20182     Document Type: Review

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