Organogenesis: Keeping in touch with the germ cells

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Godt, Dorothea ^a   Tepass, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0042921293     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00609-2     Document Type: Review

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