β-Catenin in early development of the lancelet embryo indicates specific determination of embryonic polarity

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 467-475

  Yasui, Kinya ^a   Li, Guorong ^a,d   Wang, Yong ^b,e   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^b   Zhang, Peijun ^e   Aizawa, Shinichi ^c  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^d Shandong Teacher's University   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

catenin; Amphioxus; Chordate; Dorsal determination; Embryonic polarity; Lithium; Maternal factor

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BLASTULA; BODY PATTERNING; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA;

EID: 0036924283     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2002.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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