Tripartite organization of the ancestral chordate brain and the antiquity of placodes: Insights from ascidian Pax-2/5/8, Hox and Otx genes

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1113-1122

  Wada, Hiroshi ^a   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^b   Satoh, Noriyuki ^c   Holland, Peter W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Brain patterning; Ear; Halocynthia roretzi; Hindbrain; HrPax 258; Midbrain; Pax gene; Placode

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHORDATA; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; EVOLUTION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SENSE ORGAN; SPINAL CORD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031919446     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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