Pax genes and organogenesis

BioEssays

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 755-765

  Dahl, Edgar ^a   Koseki, Haruhiko ^b   Balling, Rudi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031239122     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950190905     Document Type: Review

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