Patterns of distal-less gene expression and inductive interactions in the head of the direct developing frog Eleutherodactylus coqui

Developmental Biology

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 160-172

  Fang, Hung ^a   Elinson, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030579153     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0248     Document Type: Article

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