Molecular markers comparing the extremely simple body plan of dicyemids to that of lophotrochozoans: Insight from the expression patterns of Hox, Otx, and brachyury

Evolution and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 582-589

  Kobayashi, Mari ^a,c   Furuya, Hidetaka ^b   Wada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURY PROTEIN; FETOPROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX;

BODY CONDITION; CEPHALOPOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; METAZOAN; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC MARKERS; INVERTEBRATES; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; DICYEMA ORIENTALE; DICYEMIDA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MESOZOA; METAZOA;

EID: 70349118539     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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