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SUBMITTER: Lukas Endler
PROVIDER: BIOMD0000000201 | BioModels | 2008-11-07
REPOSITORIES: BioModels
Goldbeter Albert A Pourquié Olivier O
Journal of theoretical biology 20080118 3
The formation of somites in the course of vertebrate segmentation is governed by an oscillator known as the segmentation clock, which is characterized by a period ranging from 30 min to a few hours depending on the organism. This oscillator permits the synchronized activation of segmentation genes in successive cohorts of cells in the presomitic mesoderm in response to a periodic signal emitted by the segmentation clock, thereby defining the future segments. Recent microarray experiments [Dequea ...[more]