Left-right patterning in the C. elegans embryo: Unique mechanisms and common principles

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Pohl, Christian ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Left right axis; Planar cell polarity; Symmetry breaking; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BILATERIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 79951690336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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