Evidence for Abnormal Heart Induction in Cardiac-Mutant Salamanders ( Ambystoma mexicanum )
- 20 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 196 (4292) , 894-896
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.860120
Abstract
Homozygosity for simple recessive gene c in axolotl embryos results in the absence of a heartbeat. Gene c alters the morphology of the mutant anterior endoderm - the primary heart inductor.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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