Whorl morphogenesis in the dasycladalean algae: The pattern formation viewpoint

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1394, 2000, Pages 281-305

  Dumais, Jacques ^a,b   Harrison, Lionel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetabularia; Dasycladales; Evolution; Morphogenetic models; Spacing; Whorl morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACETABULARIA; ACETABULARIA ACETABULUM; ALGAE; DASYCLADALES; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034728439     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0565     Document Type: Article

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