Rearranging gastrulation in the name of yolk: Evolution of gastrulation in yolk-rich amniote eggs

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 3-22

  Arendt, Detlev ^a   Nübler Jung, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chick; Comparative embryology; Endodermal wedge; Evolution; Gastrulation; Hypoblast; Primitive streak

Indexed keywords

BLASTODERM; BLASTULA; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; EVOLUTION; FROG; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMNION; ANIMALS; ANURA; BLASTOCYST; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; COTURNIX; EVOLUTION; GASTRULA; XENOPUS; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0344572796     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00226-3     Document Type: Review

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