Surprisingly complex T-box gene complement in diploblastic metazoans

Evolution and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 220-230

  Yamada, Atsuko ^a   Pang, Kevin ^b   Martindale, Mark Q ^b   Tochinai, Shin ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE PROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CLONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; CYTOLOGY; GASTRULA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE CELL; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEA ANEMONE;

ANIMALS; CTENOPHORA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTRULA; MUSCLE CELLS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; ORGANOGENESIS; SEA ANEMONES; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); EUMETAZOA; METAZOA; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI; NEMATOSTELLA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS;

EID: 34248387607     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2007.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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