title: Vertebrate segmentation: snail counts the time until morphogenesis.
abstract: During segmentation of vertebrate embryos, unsegmented mesenchymal mesoderm is divided into epithelial segments called somites. This process is governed by oscillating gene expression of the somite clock. A recent paper identifies the transcription factor Snail as a link between the somite clock and the control of somite morphogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208103, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. scott.holley@yale.edu
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Holley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001683:Biological Clocks; D002642:Chick Embryo; D051379:Mice; D009024:Morphogenesis / Q000235:genetics*; D000071250:Snail Family Transcription Factors; D019170:Somites; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000502:physiology*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000196:embryology / Q000254:growth & development*
chemical_list: D000071250:Snail Family Transcription Factors; D014157:Transcription Factors