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Zebrafish frizzled-2 morphant displays defects in body axis elongation

  1. Saulius Sumanas,
  2. Hyon J. Kim,
  3. Spencer Hermanson,
  4. Stephen C. Ekker*

Article first published online: 23 JUL 2001

DOI: 10.1002/gene.1043

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Volume 30, Issue 3, pages 114–118, July 2001

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Sumanas, S., Kim, H. J., Hermanson, S. and Ekker, S. C. (2001), Zebrafish frizzled-2 morphant displays defects in body axis elongation. Genesis, 30: 114–118. doi: 10.1002/gene.1043

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  1. Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of MinnesotaArnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota

*Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota Medical School, 321 Church Street, S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

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  1. Issue published online: 23 JUL 2001
  2. Article first published online: 23 JUL 2001
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 12 JUN 2001
  4. Manuscript Received: 1 MAY 2001

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