Formation and segmentation of the vertebrate body axis

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 29, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-26

  B́enaźeraf, Bertrand ^a   Pourquíe, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

axis elongation; chicken embryo; morphogenesis; somitogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANURA; CHICK EMBRYO; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; TAIL; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIMITIVE STREAK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84885770052     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-101011-155703     Document Type: Review

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