Left-right axis development: Examples of similar and divergent strategies to generate asymmetric morphogenesis in chick and mouse embryos

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 256-267

  Schlueter, J ^a   Brand, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2;

ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33947367089     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103187     Document Type: Article

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