The evolution of left-right asymmetry in chordates

BioEssays

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1004-1011

  Boorman, Clive J ^a   Shimeld, Sebastian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN NODAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIACEA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036843552     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10171     Document Type: Review

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