Conserved early expression patterns of micromere specification genes in two echinoid species belonging to the orders clypeasteroida and echinoida

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 239, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3391-3403

  Yamazaki, Atsuko ^a,b   Furuzawa, Yousuke ^a   Yamaguchi, Masaaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alx; delta; Echinoderm; ets; Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus; hesC; micro1; pmar1; Sand dollar; Scaphechinus mirabilis; Sea urchin

Indexed keywords

ALX1 GENE; ARTICLE; CLYPEASTEROIDA; DELTA GENE; ECHINOIDA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ETS1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEMICENTROTUS; HESC GENE; MICRO1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPHECHINUS MIRABILIS; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; SEA URCHINS;

CLYPEASTEROIDA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; HEMICENTROTUS PULCHERRIMUS; SCAPHECHINUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 78649703032     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22476     Document Type: Article

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