Left-right asymmetry in animal development

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 1997, Pages 53-82

  Wood, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality; Embryonic axes; Handedness; Laterality; Polarity; Situs inversus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL GENETICS; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHICK EMBRYO; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SNAIL; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031451171     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.13.1.53     Document Type: Review

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