Trunk lateral cells are neural crest-like cells in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis: Insights into the ancestry and evolution of the neural crest

Developmental Biology

Volumn 324, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 152-160

  Jeffery, William R ^a,b   Chiba, Takuto ^a   Krajka, Florian Razy ^b   Deyts, Carole ^b   Satoh, Nori ^c   Joly, Jean Stéphane ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ciona intestinalis; Gene co option; HNK 1 expression; Neural crest ancestry and evolution; Neural crest cells; Neural crest regulatory gene network; Neural crest like cells

Indexed keywords

HNK 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME CELL; METAMORPHOSIS; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ASCIDIA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 55749097598     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.08.022     Document Type: Article

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