Analysis of her1 and her7 mutants reveals a spatio temporal separation of the Somite clock module

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Choorapoikayil, Suma ^a,c   Willems, Bernd ^b   Ströhle, Peter ^a   Gajewski, Martin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d Hamilton Bonaduz AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTAC GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HER1 GENE; HER7 GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSCILLATION; SOMITE; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTANT PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SOMITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84862502310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039073     Document Type: Article

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