Embryonic Cleavage Cycles: How Is a Mouse Like a Fly?

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  O'Farrell, Patrick H ^a   Stumpff, Jason ^b   Su, Tin Tin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULA; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL CYCLE; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; ARTHROPODA; CHORDATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0348226546     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00933-3     Document Type: Review

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