The serine-threonine protein kinase PAK4 is dispensable in zebrafish: identification of a morpholino-generated pseudophenotype.

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Published in PLoS One on June 19, 2014

Authors

Sheran H W Law1, Thomas D Sargent1

Author Affiliations

1: Section on Vertebrate Development, Program on Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.

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