Linkage of cardiac left-right asymmetry and dorsal-anterior development in Xenopus.

doi:10.1242/dev.121.5.1467

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Linkage of cardiac left-right asymmetry and dorsal-anterior development in Xenopus.

Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 May 1995

Danos M C, Yost H J

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The left-right body axis is defined relative to the dorsal-ventral and anterior-posterior body axes. Since left-right asymmetries are not randomly oriented with respect to dorsal-ventral and anterior-posterior spatial patterns, it is possible that a common mechanism determines all three axes in a...

Topics

Animals
Gene Expression
Heart
In Situ Hybridization
Morphogenesis
Notochord
Phenotype
Ultraviolet Rays
Xenopus laevis

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