Left‐right asymmetry in vertebrates
- 1 January 1995
- Vol. 17 (1) , 79-83
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.950170114
Abstract
A mechanism for the generation of the morphological left‐right asymmetry in higher organisms is proposed, based on the idea that chirality at the molecular level is the primordial source for macroscopic asymmetry. This mechanism accounts for a variety of experimental results on artificial production of situs inversus and fits well with mutations in mice causing visceral transposition.Keywords
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