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Perspectives on asymmetry: The erickson lecture
Author(s) -
Cohen M. Michael
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american journal of medical genetics part a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.064
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1552-4833
pISSN - 1552-4825
DOI - 10.1002/ajmg.a.34348
Subject(s) - situs inversus , anatomy , cilium , biology , heterotaxy , ciliopathies , asymmetry , dextrocardia , brain asymmetry , zebrafish , neuroscience , lateralization of brain function , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , genetics , physics , heart disease , quantum mechanics , gene , phenotype
Topics discussed include asymmetry of the brain; prosopagnosia with asymmetric involvement; the blaspheming brain; effects of the numbers of X chromosomes on brain asymmetry; normal facial asymmetry; kissing asymmetry; left‐ and right‐handedness; left‐sided baby cradling; Nodal signaling and left/right asymmetry; primary cilium and left/right asymmetry in zebrafish; right/left asymmetry in snails; species differences in Shh and Fgf8; primary cilium in vertebrate asymmetry; Hedgehog signaling on the cilium; Wnt signaling on the cilium; situs solitus, situs inversus, and situs ambiguus (heterotaxy); ciliopathies; right‐sided injuries in trilobites; unilateral ocular use in the octopus; fiddler crabs; scale‐eating cichlids; narwhals; left‐footed parrots; asymmetric whisker use in rats; and right‐sided fatigue fractures in greyhounds. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.