Sponge Genes Provide New Insight into the Evolutionary Origin of the Neurogenic Circuit

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1156-1161

  Richards, Gemma S ^a   Simionato, Elena ^b   Perron, Muriel ^c   Adamska, Maja ^a   Vervoort, Michel ^b,d   Degnan, Bernard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

DEVBIO

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONGE (PORIFERA); XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE DUPLICATION; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

AMPHIMEDON; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA;

EID: 52249111368     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.074     Document Type: Article

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