PUBLICATION
Axis formation: squint comes into focus
- Authors
- Schier, A.F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-051221-1
- Date
- 2005
- Source
- Current biology : CB 15(24): 1002-1005 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Schier, Alexander
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Blastomeres/metabolism
- Body Patterning/physiology*
- Cell Polarity/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Nodal Signaling Ligands
- RNA, Messenger, Stored/genetics
- RNA, Messenger, Stored/physiology*
- Signal Transduction/physiology*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- Zebrafish Proteins/physiology
- PubMed
- 16360671 Full text @ Curr. Biol.
Citation
Schier, A.F. (2005) Axis formation: squint comes into focus. Current biology : CB. 15(24):1002-1005.
Abstract
Gene products provided by the mother to the embryo determine the body axes in most animals. A recent study in zebrafish proposes that the TGFss signal Squint is one such factor.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping