Conservation of Pax-6 in a lower chordate, the ascidian Phallusia mammillata

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 817-825

  Glardon, Sacha ^a   Callaerts, Patrick ^a   Halder, Georg ^a   Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Drosophila; Eye development; Eye evolution; Homeobox; Paired box; Pax 6; Phallusia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHORDATA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; TAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PHALLUSIA; PHALLUSIA MAMMILATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031038186     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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