A recent paper describes a striking expression pattern during somite formation for a chick ortholog of the fly hairy gene. Before segmentation, c-hairy1 mRNA oscillates in the presomitic mesoderm such that three distinct spatial patterns are seen. The authors use a series of ingenious manipulations
Rhythmic gene expression in somite formation and neural development
β Scribed by Ryoichiro Kageyama; Yasutaka Niwa; Hiromi Shimojo
- Publisher
- Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 603 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1016-8478
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