Developmental gene activities in ascidian embryos

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 542-547

  Satou, Yutaka ^a   Satoh, Nori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPIDERMIS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; MESENCHYME; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TADPOLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032847337     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(99)00012-X     Document Type: Review

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