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Further Reading
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Hutson MR and Kirby ML (2007) Model systems for the study of heart development and disease. Cardiac neural crest and conotruncal malformations. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 18 (1): 101–110.
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Rashidi H and Sottile V (2009) The chick embryo: hatching a model for contemporary biomedical research. Bioessays 31 (4): 459–465.