The evolution of nervous system patterning: Insights from sea urchin development

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3613-3623

  Angerer, Lynne M ^a   Yaguchi, Shunsuke ^b   Angerer, Robert C ^a   Burke, Robert D ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anteriorposterior axis; Apical organ; BMP; Chordin; Ciliary band; Dorsal ventral axis; Ectoderm patterning; FoxQ2; Lefty; Neural development; Neural patterning; Nodal; Six3; TGF ; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; PROTEIN NODAL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PATTERNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NODAL PROTEIN; SEA URCHINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 80051537668     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.058172     Document Type: Review

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