The vegetal determinants required for the Spemann organizer move equatorially during the first cell cycle

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2207-2214

  Sakai, Masao ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical rotation; Cytoplasmic injection; Dorsal determinants; Ligation; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; LIGATION; LITHIUM; MORPHOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030038293     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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