The ascidian genome contains another T-domain gene that is expressed in differentiating muscle and the tip of the tail of the embryo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 773-779

  Yasuo, Hitoyoshi ^a,b   Kobayashi, Mari ^a   Shimauchi, Yoshie ^a   Satoh, Noriyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL; TISSUE INDUCTION;

EID: 0030589606     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0345     Document Type: Article

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