Roles of Eph receptors and ephrins in segmental patterning

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1399, 2000, Pages 993-1002

  Xu, Qiling ^a   Mellitzer, Georg ^a   Wilkinson, David G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell movement; Cell signalling; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034729895     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0635     Document Type: Conference Paper

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