Lineage-independent mosaic expression and regulation of the Ciona multidom gene in the ancestral notochord

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 236, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1806-1819

  Oda Ishii, Izumi ^a   Di Gregorio, Anna ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Brachyury; CCP domain; Ciona; Notochord; Transcription; VWFA domain

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL LINEAGE; CIONA MULTIDOM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NOTOCHORD; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ASCIDIA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 34447575733     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21213     Document Type: Article

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