title: Expression of a medaka (Oryzias latipes) Bar homologue in the differentiating central nervous system and retina.
abstract: The Bar homeobox genes play an essential role during nervous system and eye development in Drosophila. We isolated a medaka Bar gene closely related to the Drosophila and mammalian Bar genes. In the medaka embryo, OlBar is expressed from gastrula stages onwards, in a region demarcating the presumptive prosencephalic-mesencephalic boundary. Later in development, OlBar transcripts are found in populations of differentiating neuronal cells of the brain and the retina.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica, Laboratori di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo, Universita di Pisa, Via G. Carducci 13, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Poggi
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carl
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vignali
authors.forename: Giuseppina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barsacchi
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wittbrodt
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000196:embryology*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000378:metabolism; D015870:Gene Expression; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism; D009990:Oryzias; D012160:Retina / Q000196:embryology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary