Noise drives sharpening of gene expression boundaries in the zebrafish hindbrain

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Lei ^a,b   Radtke, Kelly ^a   Zheng, Likun ^a   Cai, Anna Q ^c   Schilling, Thomas F ^a   Nie, Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

cellular decision; intracellular noise; morphogen; signal transduction network; stochastic fluctuation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXB1A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR KROX20; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RETINOIC ACID; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RHOMBOMERE 4; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRETINOIN; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84866977110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2012.45     Document Type: Article

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