A conserved role for the MEK signalling pathway in neural tissue specification and posteriorisation in the invertebrate chordate, the ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 147-159

  Hudson, Clare ^a   Darras, Sébastien ^a   Caillol, Danielle ^a   Yasuo, Hitoyoshi ^b   Lemaire, Patrick ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Ciona; ERK; FGF; MEK; Neural induction; Neural patterning; Tunicate

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ASCIDIACEA; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS CELL; EVOLUTION; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; NERVE CORD; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BENZAMIDES; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; BUTADIENES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEURONS; NITRILES; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037236428     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00200     Document Type: Review

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