Generating Cellular Diversity and Spatial Form: Wnt Signaling and the Evolution of Multicellular Animals

Developmental Cell

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 643-655

  Loh, Kyle M ^a   van Amerongen, Renée ^b   Nusse, Roel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WNT PROTEIN;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL REGENERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84991780814     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.08.011     Document Type: Review

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