Understanding the somitogenesis clock: What's missing?

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 124, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 501-517

  Cinquin, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian oscillations; Clock and wavefront; FGF; her1; her13.2; her7; hes1; hes7; Lunatic fringe; Mathematical models; Notch; Retinoic acid; Somitogenesis clock; Wnt

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMITE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SOMITES; XENOPUS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34547188670     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2007.06.004     Document Type: Review

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