Article
Induction of muscle pioneers and floor plate is distinguished by the zebrafish no tail mutation.
Cell - 8 Oct 1993
Halpern M E, Ho R K, Walker C, Kimmel C B
Abstract excerpt
Dorsal mesoderm is thought to provide important signals for axis formation and neural differentiation in vertebrate embryos. We have examined induction and patterning in a zebrafish mutant, no tail, that lacks a derivative of dorsal mesoderm, the notochord. Despite the absence of a differentiated...
Topics
- Animals
- Blastomeres
- Cell Differentiation
- Central Nervous System
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Gene Expression
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mesoderm
- Mosaicism
- Mutation
- Notochord
- Tail
- Zebrafish