The making of the somite: Molecular events in vertebrate segmentation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 835-845

  Saga, Yumiko ^a   Takeda, Hiroyuki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MESODERM; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SOMITE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESODERM; SOMITES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0035514186     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35098552     Document Type: Review

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