Development of the nervous system in the acorn worm Balanoglossus simodensis: Insights into nervous system evolution

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 416-424

  Miyamoto, Norio ^a   Nakajima, Yoko ^b   Wada, Hiroshi ^a   Saito, Yasunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INSECT; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BODY PATTERNING; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EVOLUTION; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

BALANOGLOSSUS; CHORDATA; HEMICHORDATA;

EID: 77955132603     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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