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Nuclear Transplantation and the Analysis of Gene Activity in Early Amphibian Development

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Control Mechanisms in Development

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 62))

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Amphibian eggs are large and tolerant to the injection of small pipettes. For this reason they are particularly well suited for microinjection experiments. This paper discusses certain types of injection experiments that have proved informative in the analysis of gene activity in development.

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Gurdon, J.B. (1975). Nuclear Transplantation and the Analysis of Gene Activity in Early Amphibian Development. In: Meints, R.H., Davies, E. (eds) Control Mechanisms in Development. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 62. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3255-8_3

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