Evolutionary alterations of the minimal promoter for notochord-specific Brachyury expression in ascidian embryos

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3725-3734

  Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Mitani, Yasuo ^a   Satoh, Gouki ^a   Satoh, Nori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Brachyury; Divergence; Evolutionary alteration; Minimal promoter; Notochord specific expression; T binding motif

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FUSION GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CIONA INTESTINALIS; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI;

EID: 0032880773     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.126.17.3725     Document Type: Article

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