Oikopleura dioica alcohol dehydrogenase class 3 provides new insights into the evolution of retinoic acid synthesis in chordates

Zoological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-133

  Caestro, Cristian ^a,b   Albalat, Ricard ^b   Postlethwait, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adh3 gene expression ; Alcohol dehydrogenase family; Chordate evolution; Digestive system; Retinoic acid synthesis; Tunicate urochordate appendicularian larvacean

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UROCHORDATA;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; TRETINOIN; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); CHORDATA; OIKOPLEURA; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76849103339     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.27.128     Document Type: Article

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