Vertebrate segmentation: The clock is linked to Notch signalling

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 24, 1998, Pages

  Jiang, Yun Jin ^a   Smithers, Lucy ^a   Lewis, Julian ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032481106     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(07)00547-7     Document Type: Review

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