Building the backbone: The development and evolution of vertebral patterning

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1733-1744

  Fleming, Angeleen ^a,b   Kishida, Marcia G ^a   Kimmel, Charles B ^c   Keynes, Roger J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone; Notochord; Sclerotome; Segmentation; Vertebrae

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MINERALIZATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMITE; SPINE; TELEOST; VERTEBRA ARCH; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BONE; EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; BONE AND BONES; NOTOCHORD; SPINE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84929190391     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.118950     Document Type: Review

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