Cytological and Morphological Analyses Reveal Distinct Features of Intestinal Development during Xenopus tropicalis Metamorphosis

Job Sterling; Liezhen Fu; Kazuo Matsuura; Yun-Bo Shi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047407

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Cytological and Morphological Analyses Reveal Distinct Features of Intestinal Development during Xenopus tropicalis Metamorphosis

Job Sterling ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Job Sterling, Liezhen Fu

Affiliation Section on Molecular Morphogenesis, Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism (PCRM), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Liezhen Fu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Job Sterling, Liezhen Fu

Affiliation Section on Molecular Morphogenesis, Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism (PCRM), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Kazuo Matsuura,

Affiliation Section on Molecular Morphogenesis, Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism (PCRM), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Yun-Bo Shi

* E-mail: Shi@helix.nih.gov

Affiliation Section on Molecular Morphogenesis, Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism (PCRM), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Cytological and Morphological Analyses Reveal Distinct Features of Intestinal Development during Xenopus tropicalis Metamorphosis

Job Sterling,
Liezhen Fu,
Kazuo Matsuura,
Yun-Bo Shi

Published: October 10, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047407

About the Authors

Job Sterling

Contributed equally to this work with: Job Sterling, Liezhen Fu

Affiliation Section on Molecular Morphogenesis, Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism (PCRM), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Liezhen Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Job Sterling, Liezhen Fu

Kazuo Matsuura

Yun-Bo Shi

* E-mail: Shi@helix.nih.gov

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS LF KM YS. Performed the experiments: JS LF KM. Analyzed the data: JS LF. Wrote the paper: LF YS.

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