Xenopus mutant reveals necessity of rax for specifying the eye field which otherwise forms tissue with telencephalic and diencephalic character

Developmental Biology

Volumn 395, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 317-330

  Fish, Margaret B ^a,c   Nakayama, Takuya ^a   Fisher, Marilyn ^a,d   Hirsch, Nicolas ^a   Cox, Amanda ^a   Reeder, Rollin ^a   Carruthers, Samantha ^b   Hall, Amanda ^b   Stemple, Derek L ^b   Grainger, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HIRAM COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forebrain patterning; Retina formation; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN LHX2; PROTEIN SIX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RX1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FEZF2 GENE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GASTRULA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HESX1 GENE; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; RAX GENE; RETINA; RNA SEQUENCE; TELENCEPHALON; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; EYE; FOREBRAIN; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PROSENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84908119972     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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