Characterisation of two snail genes in the gastropod mollusc Patella vulgata. Implications for understanding the ancestral function of the snail-related genes in Bilateria

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 186-195

  Lespinet, Olivier ^a,c   Nederbragt, Alexander J ^b,d   Cassan, Michel ^a   Dictus, Wim J A G ^b   van Loon, André E ^b   Adoutte, André ^a  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithelial mesenchymal transitions (EMT); Mesoderm formation; Mollusc; Patella vulgata; Snail slug and scratch gene family

Indexed keywords

ANNELID WORM; ARTHROPOD; CELL MOTILITY; CHORDATA; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EPITHELIUM; GASTROPOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SNAIL; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SNAILS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; CHORDATA; ECDYSOZOA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MOLLUSCA; PATELLA VULGATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036943844     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0228-1     Document Type: Review

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