Cloning and developmental expression of amphioxus Dachschund

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-69

  Candiani, Simona ^a   Kreslova, Jana ^b   Benes, Vladimir ^c   Oliveri, Diana ^a   Castagnola, Patrizio ^d   Pestarino, Mario ^a   Kozmik, Zbynek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Branchiostoma floridae; Dachshund; Developmental expression; Eya; Eye; Pax; Six; Somites; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR; NUCLEAR FACTOR DACHSHUND; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRANCHIOSTOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EYE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINAL VESICLE; INVERTEBRATE; LARVAL STAGE; LEG; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CORD; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNX; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMITE; THYROID GLAND; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY;

BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037347489     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-133X(02)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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