Resolving early mesoderm diversification through single-cell expression profiling

Nature

Volumn 535, Issue 7611, 2016, Pages 289-293

  Scialdone, Antonio ^a,b   Tanaka, Yosuke ^c,d,e   Jawaid, Wajid ^c,d   Moignard, Victoria ^c,d   Wilson, Nicola K ^c,d   Macaulay, Iain C ^b   Marioni, John C ^a,b,d   Göttgens, Berthold ^c,d  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN F; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAL1; TRANSCRIPTOME; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; TAL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

BIOASSAY; BLOOD; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; EMBRYO; MAMMAL; RNA; RODENT; SKIN; THIN SKINNED TECTONICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEMATOPOIESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYOLOGY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GASTRULA; GENETICS; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MESODERM; MICE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84978761773     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature18633     Document Type: Article

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