Genomic insights into Wnt signaling in an early diverging metazoan, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

EvoDevo

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Pang, Kevin ^a   Ryan, Joseph F ^b   Mullikin, James C ^b   Baxevanis, Andreas D ^b   Martindale, Mark Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); METAZOA; MNEMIOPSIS; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI; PLACOZOA; PORIFERA;

EID: 79955125001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20419139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-1-10     Document Type: Article

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