Article Information
- Received June 16, 1999
- Revision received October 27, 1999
- Accepted November 3, 1999
- First published January 15, 2000.
- Version of record published January 15, 2000.
Author Information
- Ted Zerucha1,2,
- Thorsten Stühmer3,
- Gary Hatch1,
- Byung K. Park1,
- Qiaoming Long1,
- Guoying Yu3,
- Adrianna Gambarotta1,
- Joshua R. Schultz4,
- John L. R. Rubenstein3, and
- Marc Ekker1,2
- 1Loeb Health Research Institute at the Ottawa Hospital and Department of Medicine, and
- 2Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4E9, Canada,
- 3Nina Ireland Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Programs in Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, and Biomedical Sciences, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0984, and
- 4Tularik Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080
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Disclosures
- Received June 16, 1999.
- Revision received October 27, 1999.
- Accepted November 3, 1999.
This work was supported by grants from the Medical Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and in part by Grant 1-FY99–572 from the March of Dimes Birth Defects foundation to M.E. T.S. and B.K.P. were supported by fellowships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and from the Korean Science and Engineering Foundation, respectively. We thank Genny Giroux, Lucille Joly, and Wei Lin for technical assistance, Allison Lewis for help in sequencing the zebrafishdlx4/dlx6 intergenic region, Ward Giffin and Robert Haché for useful discussions, and Marie-Andrée Akimenko and Lucie Jeannotte for critical reading of this manuscript. We thank Robb Krumlauf for kindly providing the p1229 and p1230 plasmids.
T.Z. and T.S. contributed equally to the work.
Correspondence should be addressed to Marc Ekker, Loeb Health Research Institute at the Ottawa Hospital, 725 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4E9, Canada. E-mail: mekker{at}lri.ca.
Dr. Zerucha's present address: Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Dr. Yu's present address: Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080.
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