Cappadocian is an extremely endangered Greek dialect that was spoken in Central Turkey until the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923-1924. This involuntary emigration to Greece caused near-extinction this dialect. Nowadays number speakers and semi-speakers has decreased approximately 2,800. Fortunately very remarkable dialect, which thoroughly influenced by Turkish language, been captured...

Midline signaling by Hedgehog (Hh) family members has been implicated in patterning the vertebrate embryo. We have explored the potential regulatory role of cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) in these events. Zebrafish embryos injected with RNAs encoding Sonic hedgehog (Shh), Indian hedgehog (Ihh), or a dominant-negative regulatory subunit of PKA, PKI, have equivalent phenotypes. These inclu...

Vertebrate embryonic patterning depends on signaling from Nodal, a TGFβ superfamily member. There are three Nodal orthologs in zebrafish; southpaw directs left-right asymmetries, while squint and cyclops function earlier to pattern mesendoderm. TGFβ member Vg1 is implicated in mesoderm formation but the role of the zebrafish ortholog, Growth differentiation factor 3 (Gdf3), has not been fully e...