Setting the tempo in development: an investigation of the zebrafish somite clock mechanism.
The somites of the vertebrate embryo are clocked out sequentially from the presomitic mesoderm (PSM) at the tail end of the embryo. Formation of each somite corresponds to one cycle of oscillation of the somite segmentation clock--a system of genes whose expression switches on and off periodically i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1877819?pdf=render |