The neural plate specifies somite size in the Xenopus laevis gastrula.

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Published in Dev Cell on July 01, 2001

Authors

F V Mariani1, G B Choi, R M Harland

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.

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