Remodeling of the metabolome during early frog development.

A rapid series of synchronous cell divisions initiates embryogenesis in many animal species, including the frog Xenopus laevis. After many of these cleavage cycles, the nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio increases sufficiently to somehow cause cell cycles to elongate and become asynchronous at the mid-bla...

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Main Authors: Livia Vastag, Paul Jorgensen, Leonid Peshkin, Ru Wei, Joshua D Rabinowitz, Marc W Kirschner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-02-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3035664?pdf=render