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Midline signaling in the primordium of the zebrafish anterior central nervous system.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Mar 1994
Hatta K, Püschel A W, Kimmel C B
Abstract excerpt
In all vertebrates the brain develops from the enlarged anterior part of the neural plate. However, in the zebrafish mutant cyclops, the girth of the central nervous system (CNS) is nearly uniform along its length. Changes in expression patterns of homeobox genes and neuronal markers reveal a massive deletion of the ventral forebrain, particularly the diencephalon, as well as its precursor region in the neural...
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