Isolation and characterization of endostyle-specific genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-69

  Ogasawara, Michio ^a   Satoh, Noriyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONED GENE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEVELOPMENT; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCING;

ASCIDIA; CEPHALOCHORDATA; CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INVERTEBRATA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032143356     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542776     Document Type: Article

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