Cloning and embryonic expression of Hrsna, a snail family gene of the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi: Implication in the origins of mechanisms for mesoderm specification and body axis formation in chordates

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-18

  Wada, Shuichi ^a   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Body axis formation; Mesoderm specification; Snail

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0033025316     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1999.00408.x     Document Type: Article

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