Ascidian Larva Reveals Ancient Origin of Vertebrate-Skeletal-Muscle Troponin I Characteristics in Chordate Locomotory Muscle

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2113-2122

  Cleto, Cynthia L ^a   Vandenberghe, Amanda E ^a   MacLean, Darren W ^a   Pannunzio, Pierre ^a   Tortorelli, Christine ^b   Meedel, Thomas H ^b   Satou, Yutaka ^c   Satoh, Nori ^c   Hastings, Kenneth E M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chordate evolution; Ciona intestinales; Contractile regulatory mechanism; Gene family evolution; Muscle

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; TROPONIN I;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYLOGENY; TAIL; TROPONIN I;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346095395     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg227     Document Type: Article

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