Zebrafish Wnt9a,9b paralog comparisons suggest ancestral roles for Wnt9 in neural, oral-pharyngeal ectoderm and mesendoderm

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 251-258

  Cox, A A ^a   Jezewski, P A ^b,c   Fang, P K ^a   Payne Ferreira, T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Wnt signaling; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; WNT9A PROTEIN; WNT9B PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT9A PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; WNT9B PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; FIN (ORGAN); GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LAYER; HUMAN; MESENDODERM; MOUTH; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHARYNX; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BRANCHIAL ARCH; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRANCHIAL REGION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 79952113616     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: 18727298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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