Dorsoventral patterning of the vertebrate neural tube is conserved in a protochordate

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2335-2344

  Corbo, Joseph C ^a   Erives, Albert ^a   Di Gregorio, Anna ^a   Chang, Audrey ^a   Levine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciona; Dorsoventral patterning; HNF 3 ; Neural tube; Notochord; Protochordate; snail; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPENDYMA; EVOLUTION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GASTROPODA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030743583     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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