Characterization of sFRP2-like in amphioxus: Insights into the evolutionary conservation of Wnt antagonizing function

Evolution and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 168-177

  Kong, Weihua ^a   Yang, Yongjie ^a   Zhang, Tianxiao ^a   Shi, De Li ^a,b   Zhang, Yanjun ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRZB PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEIN; SECRETION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MESODERM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEURULATION; PHYLOGENY; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; MESODERM; NEURULATION; PHYLOGENY; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; XENOPUS;

ANURA; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84863996674     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2012.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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