Review: How was metazoan threshold crossed? The hypothetical Urmetazoa

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 129, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 433-460

  Müller, Werner E G ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Evolution; Immune molecules; Metazoa; Molecular phylogeny; Monophyly; Receptors; Signal transduction; Urmetazoa

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; FIBRONECTIN; GALECTIN; GROWTH FACTOR; INTEGRIN RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; MORPHOGEN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; RECOMBINANT SOMATOMEDIN C; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; SYNTHETASE; TELOMERASE; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINEAGE; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNE SYSTEM; METAZOON; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALIA; GEODIA CYDONIUM; METAZOA; PORIFERA; SUBERITES DOMUNCULA;

EID: 0034968596     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00360-3     Document Type: Review

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