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Spatial and temporal properties of ventral blood island induction in Xenopus laevis.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Dec 1999
Kumano G, Belluzzi L, Smith W C
Abstract excerpt
Questions of dorsoventral axis determination and patterning in Xenopus seek to uncover the mechanisms by which particular mesodermal fates, for example somite, are specified in the dorsal pole of the axis while other mesoderm fates, for example, ventral blood island (VBI), are specified at the ventral pole. We report here that the genes Xvent-1, Xvent-2, and Xwnt-8 do not appear to be in the pathway of VBI...
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