Phylogenetic correspondence of the body axes in bilaterians is revealed by the right-sided expression of Pitx genes in echinoderm larvae

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 587-595

  Hibino, Taku ^a   Nishino, Atsuo ^a   Amemiya, Shonan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsoventral axis inversion; Echinoderm; Left right asymmetry; Pitx; Starfish

Indexed keywords

PITX PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTERINA; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINODERM; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMICENTROTUS; LARVA; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRISM; SEA URCHIN; STARFISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORDATA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ECHINODERMATA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEA URCHINS; STARFISH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ASTERINA PECTINIFERA; ASTEROIDEA; BILATERIA; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; HEMICENTROTUS PULCHERRIMUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750892936     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2006.00892.x     Document Type: Article

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