Molecular embryology : how molecules give birth to animals /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Taylor & Francis,
©2002
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Table of Contents:
- Growth of an embryo is founded on repeated cell division
- How an embryo acquires the correct shape as its cells divide
- How differences in molecular composition between embryonic cells originate
- Signal molecules induce changes in cell composition throughout vertebrate development
- Differences in embryonic cell composition result from activation of different genes
- Experiments of Drosophila reveal that specific transcription factors are keys that unlock embryonic genes
- The frontiers of research in molecular embryology