Segmentation of the vertebrate body

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Christ, Bodo ^a   Schmidt, Corina ^a   Huang, Ruijin ^a   Wilting, Jörg ^a   Brand Saberi, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chick embryo; Gene expression; Pattern formation; Segmentation; Somites

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL INTERACTION; DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SCLEROTOME; SOMITE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; SPINE; VERTEBRATES;

ERINACEIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031892055     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050116     Document Type: Review

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