A multigene locus containing the Manx and bobcat genes is required for development of chordate features in the ascidian tadpole larva

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1643-1653

  Swalla, Billie J ^a,b   Just, Margaret A ^c   Pederson, Erica L ^a   Jeffery, William R ^a,b,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Ascidian development; Bobcat; Chordate body plan; DEAD box RNA helicase; Gene organization; Manx

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA HELICASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TADPOLE; TAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; RNA HELICASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; LYNX RUFUS; MOLGULA OCCULTA; MOLGULA OCULATA; PUFFINUS AURICULARIS;

EID: 0032960887     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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