Isolation of cDNA clones for genes that are expressed in the tail region of the ascidian tailbud embryo

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 691-698

  Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Ishida, Kouichi ^a   Makabe, Kazuhiro W ^a   Satoh, Noriyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidians; HrPost 1; Tail epidermis; Tail specific genes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TAIL; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI;

EID: 0030686547     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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