Clocks regulating developmental processes

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 665-670

  Pourquié, Olivier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE CLUSTER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; ORGANOGENESIS; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0032191873     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(98)80097-4     Document Type: Article

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