vasa and nanos expression patterns in a sea anemone and the evolution of bilaterian germ cell specification mechanisms

Evolution and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-215

  Extavour, Cassandra G ^a   Pang, Kevin ^b   Matus, David Q ^b   Martindale, Mark Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA HELICASE;

EVOLUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MESENTERY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MESENTERY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; RNA HELICASES; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; METAZOA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS;

EID: 18944374377     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2005.05023.x     Document Type: Article

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