A transgenic wnt8a:PAC reporter reveals biphasic regulation of vertebrate mesoderm development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 240, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 898-907

  Narayanan, Anand ^a   Thompson, Sarah A ^a   Lee, Jared J ^a   Lekven, Arne C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Nodal; Posterior mesoderm; Ventrolateral mesoderm; Vertebrate; wnt8a; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

WNT8A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, P1 BACTERIOPHAGE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, REPORTER; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STEM CELLS; TAIL; VERTEBRATES; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952687795     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22599     Document Type: Article

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