A single-cell molecular map of mouse gastrulation and early organogenesis

Nature

Volumn 566, Issue 7745, 2019, Pages 490-495

  Pijuan Sala, Blanca ^a,b   Griffiths, Jonathan A ^b   Guibentif, Carolina ^a,b   Hiscock, Tom W ^b,c   Jawaid, Wajid ^a,b   Calero Nieto, Fernando J ^a,b   Mulas, Carla ^b   Ibarra Soria, Ximena ^b   Tyser, Richard C V ^d   Ho, Debbie Lee Lian ^b   Reik, Wolf ^b,e,f   Srinivas, Shankar ^d   Simons, Benjamin D ^b,c,g   Nichols, Jennifer ^b   Marioni, John C ^b,f,h   Göttgens, Berthold ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MESODERM; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIMITIVE STREAK; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; ANIMAL; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL LINEAGE; CHIMERA; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; MALE; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

T CELL ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA PROTEIN 1; TAL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHIMERA; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEMATOPOIESIS; MALE; MESODERM; MICE; MUTATION; MYELOID CELLS; ORGANOGENESIS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PRIMITIVE STREAK; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; T-CELL ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA PROTEIN 1;

EID: 85062300354     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0933-9     Document Type: Article

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