Evolutionary origin of rhopalia: Insights from cellular-level analyses of Otx and POU expression patterns in the developing rhopalial nervous system

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 404-415

  Nakanishi, Nagayasu ^a   Yuan, David ^a   Hartenstein, Volker ^a   Jacobs, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COMMON ANCESTRY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; JELLYFISH; MICROSCOPY; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SCYPHOZOA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CNIDARIA; JELLYFISH;

ANIMALS; CNIDARIA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SCYPHOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

AURELIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; CUBOZOA; HYDROIDA; RHOPALIA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 77955162472     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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