Spatial and temporal information processing in the sea urchin embryo: Modular and intramodular organization of the CyIIIa gene cis-regulatory system

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 333-348

  Kirchhamer, Carmen V ^a   Davidson, Eric H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboral ectoderm; CyIIIa; Embryogenesis; Gene regulation; Spatial information processing; Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MESENCHYME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SEA URCHIN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLASTOCYST; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA PRIMERS; ECTODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHINS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 0030049992     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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