Characterization of the stem cell system of the acoel Isodiametra pulchra

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  De Mulder, Katrien ^a,b,e   Kuales, Georg ^a   Pfister, Daniela ^a   Willems, Maxime ^b   Egger, Bernhard ^a   Salvenmoser, Willi ^a   Thaler, Marlene ^a,c   Gorny, Anne Kathrin ^a   Hrouda, Martina ^d   Borgonie, Gatan ^b   Ladurner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOELA; ACOELOMORPHA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; INVERTEBRATA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EVOLUTION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; STEM CELLS; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 74349111406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-9-69     Document Type: Article

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