Rbfox-regulated alternative splicing is critical for zebrafish cardiac and skeletal muscle functions

Developmental Biology

Volumn 359, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 251-261

  Gallagher, Thomas L ^a,b   Arribere, Joshua A ^a,b   Geurts, Paul A ^b   Exner, Cameron R T ^b   McDonald, Kent L ^b   Dill, Kariena K ^b   Marr, Henry L ^a,b   Adkar, Shaunak S ^a,b   Garnett, Aaron T ^b   Amacher, Sharon L ^b   Conboy, John G ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

A2bp1l; Alternative splicing; Muscle; Rbfox; Rbm9; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART MUSCLE; INTRON; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RBFOX GENE; SARCOMERE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 82455186856     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.08.025     Document Type: Article

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