Timing of developmental events in the early mouse embryo

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2014, Pages 65-75

  Kojima, Yoji ^a   Tam, Oliver H ^b   Tam, Patrick P L ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Cold Spring Harbor ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gastrulation; Morphogenesis; Mouse embryo; Timing mechanism; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMA; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GROWTH; GROWTH REGULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84914149103     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2014.06.010     Document Type: Review

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