Brachyury-downstream notochord genes and convergent extension in Ciona intestinalis embryos

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 373-382

  Hotta, Kohji ^a,b   Yamada, Shigehiro ^a,c   Ueno, Naoto ^a   Satoh, Nori ^c,d   Takahashi, Hiroki ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Brachyury downstream genes; Convergent extension; Notochord

Indexed keywords

ADENYLYLSULFATE KINASE; EZRIN; LYASE; MOESIN; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; NETRIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; TROPOMYOSIN;

ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EXTENSION GENE; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NOTOCHORD; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 34249814647     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2007.00935.x     Document Type: Article

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