Correct anteroposterior patterning of the zebrafish neurectoderm in the absence of the early dorsal organizer

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Varga, Máté ^a,b   Maegawa, Shingo ^a,c   Weinberg, Eric S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; EUMETAZOA;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CHORDIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; WNT PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NEUROECTODERM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEURAL PLATE; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 79955905678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-11-26     Document Type: Article

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