title: Body patterning.
abstract: Early patterning of the body during animal development is a fundamental process to subsequent events including cell differentiation, tissue and organ formation, and correct function of the adult body. We focused on two major topics: body segmentation and brain patterning, both of which are essential for conferring a functional complexity to the body, repetition of skeletal elements and complex neural network, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan. yotayota@bs.aist-nara.ac.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Osumi
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Patel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D001921:Brain / Q000196:embryology; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D006801:Humans