Limited functions of Hox genes in the larval development of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1505-1513

  Ikuta, Tetsuro ^a   Satoh, Nori ^b   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Ciona intestinalis; Hox; Larval development

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HOX GENE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA;

EID: 77951231100     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.046938     Document Type: Article

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