Location and behavior of dorsal determinants during first cell cycle in Xenopus eggs

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3687-3696

  Kikkawa, Mika ^a,b   Takano, Kazuhiro ^a,c   Shinagawa, Atsunori ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axis specification; Cortical rotation; Dorsal determinants; Localization; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CYTOPLASM; EGG; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL CYCLE; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYOLOGY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MICROMANIPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030465317     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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