Vertebrate floor-plate specification: Variations on common themes

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 155-162

  Strähle, Uwe ^a,b   Lam, Chen Sok ^a   Ertzer, Raymond ^a   Rastegar, Sepand ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN; FISH; FLOOR PLATE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1242316238     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.01.002     Document Type: Review

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