Early embryonic development in the spider Achaearanea tepidariorum: Microinjection verifies that cellularization is complete before the blastoderm stage

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 436-445

  Kanayama, Masaki ^a,b   Akiyama Oda, Yasuko ^a   Oda, Hiroki ^a,b  

^a JT Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chelicerate; Cleavage; Drosophila; Embryogenesis; Green fluorescent protein; Syncytial blastoderm

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FLUOROCHROME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ACHAEARANEA TEPIDARIORUM; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MOTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; CELL NUCLEUS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DEXTRANS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPIDERS;

ACHAEARANEA; ACHAEARANEA TEPIDARIORUM; ARANEAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78649700791     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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