Coupling cellular oscillators: A mechanism that maintains synchrony against developmental noise in the segmentation clock

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 236, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1416-1421

  Ishimatsu, Kana ^a   Horikawa, Kazuki ^a,b   Takeda, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coupled oscillator; Segmentation clock; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; COUPLING FACTOR; FIREFLY; GENE EXPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEGMENTATION CLOCK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSPLANTATION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESODERM;

DANIO RERIO; LAMPYRIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34250627923     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21139     Document Type: Review

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