Protochordate Zic genes define primitive somite compartments and highlight molecular changes underlying neural crest evolution

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 136-144

  Gostling, Neil J ^a   Shimeld, Sebastian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

EVOLUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEURAL CREST; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SOMITE; STAINING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; PHYLOGENY; SOMITES; STAINING AND LABELING; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141574418     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03020.x     Document Type: Article

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