Hroth, an orthodenticle-related homeobox gene of the ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi: Its expression and putative roles in the axis formation during embryogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-71

  Wada, Shuichi ^a   Katsuyama, You ^a   Sato, Yoshiko ^a   Itoh, Chieko ^a   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Body axis formation; Gastrulation; Orthodenticle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECTODERM; ENDODERM; EPIDERMIS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0030293786     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00600-4     Document Type: Article

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