Targeted knockdown of an opsin gene inhibits the swimming behaviour photoresponse of ascidian larvae

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 347, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 167-170

  Inada, Kyoko ^a   Horie, Takeo ^a   Kusakabe, Takehiro ^a   Tsuda, Motoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Eye; Knockdown; Morpholinos; Opsin; Swimming behaviour

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VISUAL PIGMENT; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CI OPSIN1 PROTEIN, CIONA INTESTINALIS; CI-OPSIN1 PROTEIN, CIONA INTESTINALIS; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION; SWIMMING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CIONA INTESTINALIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; LARVA; LIGHT; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHOLINES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SWIMMING;

EID: 0042090210     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00689-X     Document Type: Article

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