Scrambled or bisected mouse eggs and the basis of patterning in mammals

BioEssays

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 271-274

  Gardner, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; OOCYTE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; FEMALE; MICE; OOCYTES; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033118381     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199904)21:4<271::AID-BIES2>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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