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Mammalian development: axes in the egg?
1Department of Anatomy, Downing Street, Cambridge CB3 3DY, UK. mjh@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|June 20, 2001
Abstract:
An enduring but erroneous belief is that the post-fertilisation period is irrelevant for axis development in mammals. Two recent studies further undermine this belief. Is information for axial developmental encoded in the egg cortex?