Download or read book The Vertebrate Organizer written by Horst Grunz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organizer area plays a central role in the formation of the embryonic axis and the central nervous system of all vertebrates including the human fetus. In The Vertebrate Organizer outstanding molecular development biologists and embryologists report their latest approaches in this fascinating research area using different vertebrate model organisms. The presented data are of central importance for the understanding of early human embryogenesis.