The Spemann organizer of Xenopus is patterned along its anteroposterior axis at the earliest gastrula stage

Developmental Biology

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 482-491

  Zoltewicz, Susie J ^a   Gerhart, John C ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anteroposterior; Dorsal mesoderm; Early gastrula; Neural induction; Spemann organizer; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO POLARITY; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031573818     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8774     Document Type: Article

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