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Left‐right asymmetry in vertebrates
Author(s) -
Almirantis Y.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.950170114
Subject(s) - situs inversus , asymmetry , transposition (logic) , mechanism (biology) , biology , evolutionary biology , genetics , anatomy , physics , computer science , artificial intelligence , particle physics , quantum mechanics
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.