The snail repressor establishes a muscle/notochord boundary in the Ciona embryo

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2511-2520

  Fujiwara, Shigeki ^b   Corbo, Joseph C ^a,c   Levine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ci Bra enhancer; Ciona; Muscle; Notochord; Repressor; Snail

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NOTOCHORD; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031903097     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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