Maintenance of somite borders in mice requires the Delta homologue Dll1

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6626, 1997, Pages 717-721

  De Angelis, Martin Hrabě ^a,b   McIntyre II, Joseph ^a   Gossler, Achim ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTOME; SOMITE;

EID: 0030976083     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386717a0     Document Type: Article

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