Comparative genomics identifies a cis-regulatory module that activates transcription in specific subsets of neurons in Ciona intestinalis larvae

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 657-667

  Yoshida, Reiko ^a   Horie, Takeo ^a   Tsuda, Motoyuki ^a   Kusakabe, Takehiro G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Ciona; Comparative genomics; Neuron; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADHESION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; LARVA; MESENCHYME CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASCIDIA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548804473     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2007.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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