Ascidian tail formation requires caudal function

Developmental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 257-268

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

^a NIBH   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Caudal; Chordate evolution; Tail formation

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL MOTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033568493     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9403     Document Type: Article

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