Dorsal or ventral: Similarities in fate maps and gastrulation patterns in annelids, arthropods and chordates

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 7-21

  Arendt, Detlev ^a   Nübler Jung, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dorsoventral axis inversion; fate maps; gastrulation patterns; homology; midline cells; neural body side

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BLASTULA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EVOLUTION; GASTRULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODS; BLASTOCYST; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; GASTRULA; GENES, HOMEOBOX;

EID: 0031043366     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00620-X     Document Type: Review

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