Tissue Interactions and Lens-forming Competence in the Outer Cornea of Larval Xenopus laevis

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 161-171

  Cannata, Stefano M ^a   Arresta, Emiliano ^a   Bernardini, Sergio ^a   Gargioli, Cesare ^b   Filoni, Sergio ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c Dipartimento di Biologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0346152859     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.10275     Document Type: Article

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