Duration of competence and inducing capacity of blastomeres in notochord induction during ascidian embryogenesis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 449-453

  Nakatani, Yuki ^b   Nishida, Hiroki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidian embryogenesis; Competence; Inducing capacity; Notochord induction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; NOTOCHORD; OVUM; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032790940     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1999.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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