Organizer induction determines left-right asymmetry in Xenopus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 68-78

  Nascone, Nanette ^a   Mercola, Mark ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE INDUCTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031239279     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8635     Document Type: Article

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