β-Catenin specifies the endomesoderm and defines the posterior organizer of the hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 959-970

  Darras, Sébastien ^a   Gerhart, John ^b   Terasaki, Mark ^c   Kirschner, Marc ^d   Lowe, Christopher J ^e,f  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Anteroposterior axis; Deuterostome; Endomesoderm; Germ layers; Hemichordate; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DEUTEROSTOMIA; DEVELOPMENT; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENDOMESODERM; FERTILIZATION; GERM LAYER; HEMICHORDATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCOGLOSSUS KOWALEVSKII; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CHORDATA; ENDODERM; MESODERM; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PHYLOGENY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CNIDARIA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; METAZOA; PROTOSTOMIA; SACCOGLOSSUS KOWALEVSKII; TURBELLARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951527728     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.059493     Document Type: Article

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