Mechanism of an evolutionary change in muscle cell differentiation in ascidians with different modes of development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 379-392

  Kusakabe, Takehiro ^a,b,c,e   Swalla, Billie J ^a,b,f   Satoh, Noriyuki ^c   Jeffery, William R ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029881264     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0082     Document Type: Article

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