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Embryonic axes: the long and short of it in the mouse
1Embryology Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Locked Bag 23, Wentworthville, NSW 2145, Australia. ptam@cmri.usyd.edu.au
Current Biology : CB
|March 27, 2004
Abstract:
Contrary to conventional wisdom, recent studies indicate that, during mouse development, the embryo's anterior-posterior axis shifts from the shorter transverse axis to the orthogonal longer one as the shape of the pre-gastrula-stage embryo is remodelled.

