Anteroposterior patterning of the epidermis by inductive influences from the vegetal hemisphere cells in the ascidian embryo

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 4955-4963

  Wada, Shuichi ^a   Katsuyama, You ^a,b   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anteroposterior axis; Ascidian; Epidermis; Inductive influence; Patterning; Vegetal hemisphere cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL CONTACT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033432790     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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