The body margin of the planarian Dugesia japonica: Characterization by the expression of an intermediate filament gene

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 365-373

  Tazaki, Akira ^a   Kato, Kentaro ^a   Orii, Hidemufi ^a   Agata, Kiyokazu ^a,b   Watanabe, Kenji ^a  

^a Faculty of Science   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gland cell; Pattern formation; Platyhelminthes; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; LAMIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HELIX ASPERSA; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAIL; TISSUE REGENERATION; TURBELLARIA; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

BILATERIA; DUGESIA JAPONICA; GASTROPODA; HELIX ASPERSA; INVERTEBRATA; JAPONICA; MOLLUSCA; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; TURBELLARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036939053     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0253-0     Document Type: Article

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