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Robert W. Briggs
Pages 50-63

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... The results of these classic studies are, still tociay, consistent with the changing patterns of gene expression occurring cluring embryogenesis that are controller! by relatively stable alterations in the chromosomal proteins en c!
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... Thus, the abnormal gene products proclucec! in the growing oocytes revealec!
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... stucliec! them uncler magnifying glasses en c!
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... four main periods of pioneering research in amphibian clevelopment, involving neoplasia, ploicly, nuclear transplantation, en c! maternal genes.
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... the Lankenau Hospital Research Institute (later the Institute for Cancer Research en c! now the Fox Chase Cancer Center)
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... the clevelopment of the technique of amphibian nuclear transplantation in determining whether somatic nuclei remain equivalent to the zygote nucleus in clevelopmental potential cluring embryogenesis, a question poser! previously by H
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... Humphrey to Indiana University soon after Humphrey retiree! from his post at the University of Buffalo Meclical School (now the State University of New York at Buffalo)
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... maternal effects through mollifications of the egg cytoplasm were therefore of special interest, as they proviclec! a means to stucly how the egg cytoplasm acts to control early embryonic clevelopment.
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... Meredith Briggs Skeah of Green Village, New Jersey. His former wife, Janet Bloch Briggs of HilIsciale, en c!
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... Growth The Early History of a Cancer Research Institute (1927-1957J. Philadelphia: Talbot Research Library of the Fox Chase Cancer Center and American Philosophical Society.
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... Fankhauser. Sex differentiation in triploid Rana pipiens larvae and the subsequent reversal of females to males.
From page 62...
... Development of nucleartransplant embryos of known chromosome complement following parabiosis with normal embryos. In Symposium on Germ Cells and Earliest Stages of Development, ed.
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... Accumulation in the oocyte nucleus of a gene product essential for embryonic development beyond gastrulation.


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