Zebrafish genetics and vertebrate heart formation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-48

  Stainier, Didier Y R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; HEART; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; VERTEBRATES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0035221107     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35047564     Document Type: Review

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