Live imaging and morphometric analysis of embryonic development in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 136-147

  Rhee, Jerry M ^a   Oda Ishii, Izumi ^b   Passamaneck, Yale J ^b   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^a   Di Gregorio, Anna ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Brachyury; Ciona; Confocal; Fluorescent proteins; Forkhead; Imaging; Muscle; Nervous system; Notochord; Snail

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; LARVA; LASER MICROSCOPY; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAIL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GASTROPODA;

EID: 28844497744     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20164     Document Type: Article

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