HrzicN, a new Zic family gene of ascidians, plays essential roles in the neural tube and notochord development

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5597-5608

  Wada, Shuichi ^a   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Halocynthia roretzi; Morpholino antisense oligonucleotide; Neural tube; Notochord; Zic family gene

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CHORDATA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MARKER GENE; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE TISSUE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAIL; TAIL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; NOTOCHORD; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; GASTROPODA; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036932062     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00156     Document Type: Article

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