The larval ascidian nervous system: The chordate brain from its small beginnings

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 401-410

  Meinertzhagen, Ian A ^a   Okamura, Yasushi ^b,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b National Institutes of Natural Sciences   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LARVA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0035385935     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2236(00)01851-8     Document Type: Review

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