Establishment of the axis in chordates: Facts and speculations

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2285-2296

  Eyal Giladi, Hefzibah ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Axis; Chordate; Germ layer; Induction; Nieuwkoop center; Radial symmetry; Spemann's organizer; Sperm entry

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; CHORDATA; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GERM LAYER; GRAVITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERM; STAGING;

AMNION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BLASTOCYST; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FISHES; MAMMALS; MORULA; VERTEBRATES;

AMPHIBIA; CHORDATA;

EID: 0030840929     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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