The sea squirt Ciona intestinalis

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Christiaen, Lionel ^a,b   Wagner, Eileen ^a   Shi, Weiyang ^a   Levine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIELLA ASPERSA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PHALLUSIA MAMILLATA; PHYLOGENY;

ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72149103803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo138     Document Type: Article

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