Ascidians as a vertebrate-like model organism for physiological studies of Rho GTPase signaling

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 295-302

  Philips, Alexandre ^a   Blein, Marion ^a   Robert, Agnès ^a   Chambon, Jean Philippe ^b,c   Baghdiguian, Stephen ^b,c   Weill, Mylène ^c   Fort, Philippe ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Ciona intestinalis; Prochordates; Rho family; RhoGAP; RhoGEF

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; RAC PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TADPOLE;

ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041828786     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0248-4900(03)00052-2     Document Type: Article

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