Characterization of a SpAN promoter sufficient to mediate correct spatial regulation along the animal-vegetal axis of the sea urchin embryo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 95-107

  Kozlowski, David J ^a   Gagnon, Michael L ^b   Marchant, Jeffrey K ^c   Reynolds, Susan D ^a   Angerer, Lynne M ^a   Angerer, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTACENE; PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXIS; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029938621     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.9991     Document Type: Article

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