Shaping the vertebrate eye

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 511-517

  Martinez Morales, Juan Ramon ^a   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^b  

^a Departamento de Biología Molecular e Ingeniería Bioquímica   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CHOCK; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EYELESS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FISH; GASTRULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK CUP; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 71849099730     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2009.08.003     Document Type: Review

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