Chiral blastomere arrangement dictates zygotic left-right asymmetry pathway in snails

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7274, 2009, Pages 790-794

  Kuroda, Reiko ^a,b   Endo, Bunshiro ^b   Abe, Masanori ^b   Shimizu, Miho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NODAL;

ASYMMETRY; EMBRYO; GASTROPOD; GENE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; MORPHOGENESIS; SNAIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL CYCLE; CHIRALITY; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MICROMANIPULATION; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAIL; VERTEBRATE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, CONGENIC; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; LYMNAEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NODAL PROTEIN; SITUS INVERSUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; RADIX PEREGRA;

EID: 72049097683     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08597     Document Type: Article

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