What's left in asymmetry?

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3453-3463

  Aw, Sherry ^a,b   Levin, Michael ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Left right asymmetry

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

DAUGHTER CELL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GYNANDROMORPHISM; HERMAPHRODITISM; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; INDUCED MUTATION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SOMITE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 57149084272     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21560     Document Type: Review

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