A frizzled homolog functions in a vertebrate Wnt signaling pathway

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1302-1306

  Yang Snyder, Julia ^a   Miller, Jeffrey R ^a   Brown, Jeffrey D ^a   Lai, Cheng Jung ^a,b   Moon, Randall T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030265570     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)70716-1     Document Type: Article

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