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Science 20 May 1977:
Vol. 196. no. 4292, pp. 894 - 896
DOI: 10.1126/science.860120
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Science, Vol 196, Issue 4292, 894-896
Copyright © 1977 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Evidence for abnormal heart induction in cardiac-mutant salamanders (Ambystoma mexicanum)

LF Lenmanski, BS Marx, and CS Hill

Homozygosity for simple recessive gene c in axolotl embryos results in the absence of a heartbeat. Gene c alters the morphology of the mutant anterior endoderm - the primary heart inductor.


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Normal anterior endoderm corrects the heart defect in cardiac mutant salamanders (Ambystoma mexicanum).
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