A cDNA resource for the cephalochordate amphioxus Branchiostoma floridae

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 218, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 723-727

  Yu, Jr Kai ^a   Wang, Ming Chih ^b   Shin I, Tadasu ^c   Kohara, Yuji ^c   Holland, Linda Z ^d   Satoh, Noriyuki ^e,f   Satou, Yutaka ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; cDNA; Cephalochordates; EST; Gene collection

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMPHIOXUS; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; CHORDATA; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC DATABASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS;

BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57649237978     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-008-0228-x     Document Type: Article

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