The ancestral role of Brachyury: Expression of NemBra1 in the basal cnidarian Nematostella vectensis (Anthozoa)

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 563-570

  Scholz, Corinna B ^a   Technau, Ulrich ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blastopore; Brachyury; Cnidaria; Mesoderm; Nematostella vectensis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BRACHYURY; PROTEIN NEMBRA1; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BLASTOPORE; BLASTULA; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE ACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENTERY; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATOSTELLA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS;

EID: 0037274767     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0272-x     Document Type: Article

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