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Ventral and lateral regions of the zebrafish gastrula, including the neural crest progenitors, are established by a bmp2b/swirl pathway of genes.
Developmental biology - 1 Jul 1998
Nguyen V H, Schmid B, Trout J, Connors S A, Ekker M, Mullins M C
Abstract excerpt
A bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathway is implicated in dorsoventral patterning in Xenopus. Here we show that three genes in the zebrafish, swirl, snailhouse, and somitabun, function as critical components within a BMP pathway to pattern ventral regions of the embryo. The dorsalized...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Patterning
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins
- Cell Lineage
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Early Growth Response Protein 2
- Embryonic Induction
- Gastrula
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genetic Linkage
- Goosecoid Protein
- Homeodomain Proteins