Experimentally based sea urchin gene regulatory network and the causal explanation of developmental phenomenology

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 237-246

  de Leon, Smadar Ben Tabou ^a   Davidson, Eric H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDEA; ECHINOIDEA;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHINODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECHINODERMATA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SEA URCHINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 77955281697     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.24     Document Type: Article

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