Right across the tree of life: The evolution of left-right asymmetry in the Bilateria

Genesis

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 458-470

  Namigai, Erica K O ^a   Kenny, Nathan J ^a   Shimeld, Sebastian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Bilateria; Ecdysozoa; Lophotrochozoa; LR

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOCHORDATA; CLADISTICS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOSKELETON; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECDYSOZOA; ECHINODERM; HEMICHORDATA; LEFT RIGHT ASYMMETY; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREE OF LIFE; UROCHORDATA; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

PROTEIN NODAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; INVERTEBRATES; NODAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84902660958     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22748     Document Type: Review

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