The evolution and conservation of left-right patterning mechanisms

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1603-1613

  Blum, Martin ^a   Feistel, Kerstin ^a   Thumberger, Thomas ^a,b   Schweickert, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cilia; Evolution; Left right asymmetry; Left right organizer; Leftward flow

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NODAL;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; BRANCHIOSTOMA; CELL MOTION; CHICK; DEUTEROSTOMIA; DEVELOPMENT; ECHINODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FLUID FLOW; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; LEFT RIGHT PATTERNING; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN ASYMMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOSTOMIA; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAIL; SWINE; SYMMETRY BREAKAGE; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

CILIA; EVOLUTION; LEFT-RIGHT ASYMMETRY; LEFT-RIGHT ORGANIZER; LEFTWARD FLOW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; HUMANS; ORGANOGENESIS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84898721737     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.100560     Document Type: Article

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