6 Hox Genes and the Global Patterning of the Somitic Mesoderm

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 47, Issue C, 1999, Pages 155-181

  Burke, Ann Campbell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SOMITE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MESODERM; SOMITES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0033987318     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(08)60725-5     Document Type: Article

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