New insights into segmentation and patterning during vertebrate somitogenesis

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 513-518

  Yamaguchi, Terry P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; MESODERM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLEROTOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030824435     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(97)80079-2     Document Type: Article

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