Bone morphogenetic protein 2 in the early development of Xenopus laevis
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Bone morphogenetic protein 2 in the early development of Xenopus laevis
The temporal and spatial transcription patterns of the Xenopus laevis Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) gene have been investigated. Unlike the closely related BMP-4 gene, the BMP-2 gene is strongly transcribed during oogenesis. Besides some enrichment within the animal half, maternal BMP-2 transcripts are ubiquitously distributed in the early cleavage stage embryos but rapidly decline durin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mechanisms of Development
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0925-4773
DOI: 10.1016/0925-4773(95)00413-u