title: Left-right asymmetry in vertebrates.
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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biology, NRC Demokritos, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Almirantis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007839:Functional Laterality; D051379:Mice; D009024:Morphogenesis; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000196:embryology*