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The function of silberblick in the positioning of the eye anlage in the zebrafish embryo.
Developmental biology - 1 Apr 1997
Heisenberg C P, Nüsslein-Volhard C
Abstract excerpt
In zebrafish, as in other vertebrates, an initially singular eye field within the neural plate has to split during morphogenesis to allow the development of two separated eyes. It has been suggested that anterior progression of midline tissue within the neural plate is involved in the bilateralization of the eye field. Mutations in the recently identified silberblick (slb) gene cause an incomplete separation of...
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