Brachyury homolog (HpTa) is involved in the formation of archenteron and secondary mesenchyme cell differentiation in the sea urchin embryo

Zoology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 99-102

  Mitsunaga Nakatsubo, Keiko ^a   Harada, Yoshito ^b   Satoh, Nori ^b   Shimada, Hiraku ^a   Akasaka, Koji ^a,c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus; Mesenchyme cells; Overexpression; Sea urchin; T gene

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747534315     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0944-2006-2410018     Document Type: Article

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