Implications for dorsoventral axis determination from the zebrafish mutation janus.

doi:10.1038/370468a0

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Implications for dorsoventral axis determination from the zebrafish mutation janus.

Nature - 11 Aug 1994

Abdelilah S, Solnica-Krezel L, Stainier D Y, Driever W

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THE mechanisms underlying the formation of dorsoventral polarity in the zebrafish Danio rerio are unknown. Here we describe the zebrafish recessive maternal-effect mutation janusm55. The mutant phenotype is a division of the blastoderm along the first cleavage plane into two detached half-sized b...

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Animals
Blastoderm
Cell Polarity
DNA-Binding Proteins
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Genes, Recessive
Goosecoid Protein
Homeodomain Proteins
Mutation
Repressor Proteins
Temperature
Transcription Factors
Zebrafish
Zebrafish Proteins

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