Vegetal egg cytoplasm promotes gastrulation and is responsible for specification of vegetal blastomeres in embryos of the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1271-1279

  Nishida, Hiroki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian embryogenesis; Cleavage pattern; Cytoplasmic determinants; Cytoplasmic transfer; Gastrulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPIDERMIS CELL; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; OOCYTE CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMIS; GASTRULA; LARVA; MYOSINS; NOTOCHORD; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; STYELA;

EID: 0029920868     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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