Avian hairy gene expression identifies a molecular clock linked to vertebrate segmentation and somitogenesis

Cell

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 639-648

  Palmeirim, Isabel ^a   Henrique, Domingos ^b,d   Ish Horowicz, David ^b   Pourquié, Olivier ^c  

^a Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Faculdade de Medicina   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; INVERTEBRATE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030840351     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80451-1     Document Type: Article

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