Piwi expression in archeocytes and choanocytes in demosponges: Insights into the stem cell system in demosponges

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 275-287

  Funayama, Noriko ^a   Nakatsukasa, Mikiko ^a   Mohri, Kurato ^a   Masuda, Yoshiki ^b   Agata, Kiyokazu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLAGELLATE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; MORPHOLOGY; SPONGE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPONGE (PORIFERA); STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; PORIFERA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; STEM CELLS;

CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; EPHYDATIA FLUVIATILIS; METAZOA; SPONGILLIDAE;

EID: 74549117615     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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