Cell Movements and the Shaping of the Vertebrate Body Archived 2020-01-22 at the Wayback Machine in Chapter 21 of Molecular Biology of the Cell Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine fourth edition, edited by Bruce Alberts (2002) published by Garland Science. The Alberts text discusses how the "cellular building blocks" move to shape developing embryos. It is also …

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