Borrowing thy neighbour's genetics: neural induction and a Brachyury mutant in Xenopus.

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Borrowing thy neighbour's genetics: neural induction and a Brachyury mutant in Xenopus.

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Aug 1994

Green J B

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A recent article by Rao exemplifies a number of new trends in developmental biology, both of technical strategy and approach to the problem of neural induction. Rao introduced into frog embryos a mutant form of a mesodermal gene, Brachyury, and caused ectopic neural differentiation. This essay tr...

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Animals
Embryonic Induction
Gene Transfer Techniques
Mesoderm
Mutation
Xenopus laevis

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