Quantity of prelocalized maternal factor is associated with the timing of initiation of an epidermis-specific gene expression of the ascidian embryo

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 151-156

  Ishida, Kouichi ^a   Satoh, Noriyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amount of a maternal factor; Ascidian; Epidermis specific gene expression; Half egg volume embryos; Timing mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUSCLES; NOTOCHORD; OVUM; TIME FACTORS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI;

EID: 0031832412     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050166     Document Type: Article

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