Development of the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica: Culture, genome, and cell lineages

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Nishida, Hiroki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Appendicularian; Cell lineage; Fate map; Life cycle; Oikopleura

Indexed keywords

CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAMETOGENESIS; GASTRULATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOME; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SOMATIC CELL; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENOME; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLOIDIES; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); ASCIDIACEA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHORDATA; OIKOPLEURA; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44249116459     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01035.x     Document Type: Review

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