XMyf-5, mesoderm, somite
XMyf-5, nucleic acid
Cloned by Hopwood et al., 1991. Expressed in dorsolateral marginal zone in early gastrulae, and is later found in the most dorsal and ventral tips of the somites. This image is from Dosch et al., 1997.
Left image, stage 10+ vegetal view, dorsal is up; center image, stage 12, dorsal view, anterior is left; right image, stage 30
Figure is Copyright © 1997, Company of Biologists.
- Reference; Hopwood, N. D., Pluck, A. and Gurdon, J. B. (1991). Xenopus Myf-5 marks
early muscle cells and can activate muscle genes ectopically in early
embryos. Development 111, 551-560.
- Dosch, Volker Gawantka, Hajo Delius, Claudia Blumenstock and Christof Niehrs. Bmp-4 acts as a morphogen in dorsoventral mesoderm patterning in Xenopus. (download abstract)
Development 124, 2325-2334 (1997)
- Available from; Christof Niehrs
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