RESUMEN

The satellite symposium on 'Making and breaking the left-right axis: implications of laterality in development and disease' was held in June 2013 in conjunction with the 17th International Society for Developmental Biology meeting in Cancún, Mexico. As we summarize here, leaders in the field gathered at the symposium to discuss recent advances in understanding how left-right asymmetry is generated and utilized across the animal kingdom.

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Tipificación del Cuerpo , Animales , Pollos , Humanos , Invertebrados/embriología , México , Ratones , Proteína Nodal/metabolismo , Sus scrofa/embriología , Xenopus/embriología