Direct evidence of an essential role for extended involution in the specification of a dorsal marginal mesoderm during Cynops gastrulation

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-141

  Suzuki, Akio S ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki ^a   Imoh, Hiroshi ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cynops; dorsalization; gastrulation; involution; marginal mesoderm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; INVOLUTION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD;

EID: 0030969289     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-1-00002.x     Document Type: Article

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