Surfing with the tunicates into the post-genome era

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2407-2411

  Satoh, Nori ^a   Levine, Mike ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Ciona; Gene networks; Genomics; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIACEA; BEHAVIOR; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE CONTROL; GENOME; GENOMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANOGENESIS;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 26944488352     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1365805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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