The micro1 gene is necessary and sufficient for micromere differentiation and mid/hindgut-inducing activity in the sea urchin embryo

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 215, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 450-459

  Yamazaki, Atsuko ^a   Kawabata, Rika ^a   Shiomi, Kosuke ^a   Amemiya, Shonan ^b   Sawaguchi, Masaya ^c   Mitsunaga Nakatsubo, Keiko ^c   Yamaguchi, Masaaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active activator; Homeobox gene; Micromere specification; Transcriptional repressor; VP16 activation domain

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOBOX; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; MICRO1 GENE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHIMERA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; PHENOTYPE; SEA URCHINS;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; PLUTEUS;

EID: 24344483872     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-005-0006-y     Document Type: Article

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