Cell communities and robustness in development

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1183-1189

  Monk, Nicholas A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLASTULA; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICS; NONHUMAN; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031277452     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02460107     Document Type: Article

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