Gastrulation: Making and shaping germ layers

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2012, Pages 687-717

  Solnica Krezel, Lila ^a   Sepich, Diane S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

adhesion; cell intercalation; cell migration; chemotaxis; planar polarity

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOKINE; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANURA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CHEMOKINESIS; CHEMOTAXIS; CHICK; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECTODERM; ENDODERMAL CELL; EPIBOLY; GASTRULATION; GERM LAYER; INTERNALIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CYTOSKELETON; GASTRULATION; GERM LAYERS; HUMANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84870180693     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-092910-154043     Document Type: Review

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