Orthologs of key vertebrate neural genes are expressed during neurogenesis in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii

Evolution and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 513-524

  Kerner, Pierre ^a,b,c   Simionato, Elena ^b   Le Gouar, Martine ^b   Vervoort, Michel ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VERTEBRATES;

ANNELIDA; BILATERIA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECDYSOZOA; HEXAPODA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; PLATYNEREIS; PLATYNEREIS DUMERILII; POLYCHAETA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349084867     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00359.x     Document Type: Article

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