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Matthew Towers1, Ruth Mahood, Yili Yin

  • 1Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, WTB/MSI Complex, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.

Nature
|March 21, 2008
PubMed
まとめ

ソニック・ヘッジホッグ (Shh) 信号は,鶏の羽の発達に不可欠であり,細胞のアイデンティティと増殖の両方を制御します. この研究は,数字の完全なパターンを形成するためにShh依存の成長が不可欠であり,進化的な数字の減少に影響を及ぼすことを明らかにしています.

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