title: Nodal signaling in early vertebrate embryos: themes and variations.
abstract: The nodal family of TGFbeta-related ligands have emerged as critical regulators of early vertebrate embryogenesis. Recent studies in mice, fish, and frogs of nodals and their intracellular transducers allow a comparison of how this signaling pathway is used in the patterning of early embryos of these different vertebrates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. mwhitman@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Whitman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D025461:Feedback, Physiological; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors; D051379:Mice; D055457:Nodal Protein; D018125:Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta / Q000378:metabolism*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000196:embryology* / Q000235:genetics; D014982:Xenopus laevis / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors; C491117:Foxh1 protein, mouse; D055457:Nodal Protein; C526008:Nodal protein, mouse; D018125:Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta; D014157:Transcription Factors; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta