Nodal signalling is involved in left-right asymmetry in snails

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7232, 2009, Pages 1007-1011

  Grande, Cristina ^a   Patel, Nipam H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANCESTRY; ASYMMETRY; CLADISTICS; EMBRYO; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SNAIL; VERTEBRATE;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CHIRALITY; CLADISTICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NODAL PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAILS;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ASCIDIACEA; BILATERIA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECDYSOZOA; ECHINOIDEA; GASTROPODA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; LOTTIA GIGANTEA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 60549099164     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07603     Document Type: Article

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