The control of chemotactic cell movement during Dictyostelium morphogenesis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1399, 2000, Pages 983-991

  Dormann, Dirk ^a   Vasiev, Bakhtier ^a   Weijer, Cornelis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell sorting; Chemotaxis; Morphogenesis; Signal relay; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0034729897     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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