Genomewide surveys of developmentally relevant genes in Ciona intestinalis

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 213, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 211-212

  Satou, Yutaka ^a   Satoh, Nori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ASCIDIACEA; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPIDERMIS; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; MESENCHYME; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENE; VERTEBRATE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENOME;

ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037966085     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-003-0330-z     Document Type: Editorial

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