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Establishment of mesodermal gene expression patterns in early Xenopus embryos: the role of repression.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists - 1 Jun 2005
Kurth Thomas, Meissner Stefan, Schäckel Simona, Steinbeisser Herbert
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In Xenopus, activin-like signals are able to induce and pattern mesoderm in a concentration-dependent manner. Previous experiments demonstrated that discrete gene expression patterns can be formed in animal cap explants as a response to graded activin signals. We analyzed the spatiotemporal appearance of goosecoid (gsc), chordin (chd), and Xbrachyury (Xbra) mRNAs in whole Xenopus embryos ectopically expressing...
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