Control of segment number in vertebrate embryos

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7202, 2008, Pages 335-339

  Gomez, Céline ^a   Özbudak, Ertuǧrul M ^a   Wunderlich, Joshua ^a   Baumann, Diana ^a   Lewis, Julian ^b   Pourquié, Olivier ^a,c  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIZARIN; BROXURIDINE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; VERTEBRATE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SOMITE; STAINING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SNAKES; SOMITES; TIME FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

AMNIOTA; DANIO RERIO; PANTHEROPHIS GUTTATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 47549095365     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07020     Document Type: Article

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