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Structure, regulation, and function of micro1 in the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus.
Development genes and evolution - 1 Nov 2004
Nishimura Yukiko, Sato Tokiharu, Morita Yasuhiro, Yamazaki Atsuko, Akasaka Koji, Yamaguchi Masaaki
Abstract excerpt
The animal-vegetal axis of sea urchin embryos is morphologically apparent at the 16-cell stage, when the mesomeres, macromeres, and micromeres align along it. At this stage, the micromere is the only autonomously specified blastomere that functions as a signaling center. We used a subtraction PCR...
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