Developmental mechanism and evolutionary origin of vertebrate left/right asymmetries

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 377-407

  Cooke, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Evolution; Handedness; Left right asymmetry; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DIENCEPHALON; EVOLUTION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LOCOMOTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SKELETON; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE; VISCERA;

ANATOMY; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842669010     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793103006298     Document Type: Review

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