Gene regulatory networks and developmental plasticity in the early sea urchin embryo: Alternative deployment of the skeletogenic gene regulatory network

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 3077-3087

  Ettensohn, Charles A ^a   Kitazawa, Chisato ^a   Cheers, Melani S ^a   Leonard, Jennifer D ^a   Sharma, Tara ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulatory networks; Pattern formation; Primary mesenchyme; Regulative development; Sea urchin embryo; Transfating

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEA URCHINS;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 34848916672     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.009092     Document Type: Article

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