Macho-1-related genes in Ciona embryos

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 87-92

  Satou, Yutaka ^a   Yagi, Kasumi ^a   Imai, Kaoru S ^a   Yamada, Lixy ^a   Nishida, Hiroki ^b   Satoh, Nori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ciona; Macho 1; Maternal transcript; Zic related origin; Zygotic expression

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EGG PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036935184     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0218-3     Document Type: Article

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