PUBLICATION
The zebrafish organizer
- Authors
- Schier, A.F. and Talbot, W.S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-981006-6
- Date
- 1998
- Source
- Current opinion in genetics & development 8: 464-471 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Schier, Alexander, Talbot, William S.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Humans
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- PubMed
- 9729724 Full text @ Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev.
Citation
Schier, A.F. and Talbot, W.S. (1998) The zebrafish organizer. Current opinion in genetics & development. 8:464-471.
Abstract
Signals from the organizer play a crucial role in patterning the vertebrate embryo. Recent molecular analysis of zebrafish mutations has established an essential role for BMP2 and chordin in organizer function and has identified one-eyed pinhead as a novel EGF-like gene involved in prechordal plate and endoderm formation. In addition, embryological studies have suggested that the zebrafish organizer is induced by extraembryonic cues and have defined two novel organizing centers that pattern the nervous system along the anterior-posterior axes.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping