Brachyury downstream notochord differentiation in the ascidian embryo

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1519-1523

  Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Hotta, Kohji ^a   Erives, Albert ^b   Di Gregorio, Anna ^b   Zeller, Robert W ^c   Levine, Michael ^b   Satoh, Nori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Brachyury; Differentiation; Downstream genes; Notochord

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033564625     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.12.1519     Document Type: Article

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