Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: The tunicates

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2143-2152

  Lemaire, Patrick ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Asexual development; Budding; Chordates; Embryogenesis; Evolution; Tunicates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79956329403     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.048975     Document Type: Article

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