Role for sperm in spatial patterning of the early mouse embryo

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6819, 2001, Pages 517-521

  Piotrowska, K ^a   Zernicka Goetz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; OVUM; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035945561     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35054069     Document Type: Article

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