Molecular specification of germ layers in vertebrate embryos.

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Published in Cell Mol Life Sci on December 14, 2015

Authors

Clemens Kiecker1, Thomas Bates1,2, Esther Bell3

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, UK.
2: Leibniz Institute on Aging, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany.
3: MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, UK. esther.bell@kcl.ac.uk.

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