Limb mutants: What can they tell us about normal limb development?

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 530-536

  Niswander, Lee ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; LIMB; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

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EID: 0030882412     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(97)80082-2     Document Type: Article

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