A maternal RNA encoding smad1/5 is segregated to animal blastomeres during ascidian development

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 419-427

  Kobayashi, Ako ^a   Sasakura, Yasunori ^a   Ogasawara, Michio ^a   Makabe, Kazuhiro W ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; BMP signaling; Epidermis; Smad

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GASTRULA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOMERES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD5 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032799730     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1999.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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