The Neural Plate Specifies Somite Size in the Xenopus laevis Gastrula

Developmental Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 115-126

  Mariani, Francesca V ^a   Choi, Gloria B ^a   Harland, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SOMITES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0035405429     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(01)00018-1     Document Type: Article

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