Programmed cell death in the ascidian embryo: Modulation by FoxA5 and Manx and roles in the evolution of larval development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 111-124

  Jeffery, William R ^a,b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Anural development; Apoptosis; Ascidians; Central nervous system evolution; FoxA5; Larval form; Manx; Metamorphosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL LINEAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPIDERMIS; FOXA5 GENE; GENE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MANX GENE; MESENCHYME; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLGUTA OCCULTA; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; TAIL; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; MOLGULA; MOLGULA OCCULTA; MOLGULA OCULATA; PUFFINUS AURICULARIS; VERTEBRATA;

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CASPASE; DNA; MANX PROTEIN, MOLGULA OCULATA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CASPASES; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NOTOCHORD; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHYLOGENY; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0036805338     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00236-8     Document Type: Article

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