Making very similar embryos with divergent genomes: Conservation of regulatory mechanisms of Otx between the ascidians Halocynthia roretzi and Ciona intestinalis

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1663-1674

  Oda Ishii, Izumi ^a,b   Bertrand, Vincent ^c   Matsuo, Isao ^b   Lemaire, Patrick ^c   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Ascidian; C. intestinalis; H. roretzi; Otx

Indexed keywords

LIM PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WINGED HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BINDING SITE; CELL LINE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 17744380974     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01707     Document Type: Article

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