A contact-dependent animal-to-vegetal signal biases neural lineages during Xenopus cleavage stages

Developmental Biology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-228

  Bauer, Daniel V ^a   Best, Daniel W ^a   Hainski, Alexandra M ^a   Moody, Sally A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030587605     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0213     Document Type: Article

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