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A beta-catenin gradient links the clock and wavefront systems in mouse embryo segmentation.
Nature cell biology - 1 Feb 2008
Aulehla Alexander, Wiegraebe Winfried, Baubet Valerie, Wahl Matthias B, Deng Chuxia, Taketo Makoto, Lewandoski Mark, Pourquié Olivier
Abstract excerpt
Rhythmic production of vertebral precursors, the somites, causes bilateral columns of embryonic segments to form. This process involves a molecular oscillator--the segmentation clock--whose signal is translated into a spatial, periodic pattern by a complex signalling gradient system within the pr...
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