Identification of a rudimentary neural crest in a non-vertebrate chordate

Nature

Volumn 492, Issue 7427, 2012, Pages 104-107

  Abitua, Philip Barron ^a   Wagner, Eileen ^a   Navarrete, Ignacio A ^a   Levine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL ORGANELLE; EMERGENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INVERTEBRATE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MELANOCYTE; MESENCHYME; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UROCHORDATA; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIMB BUD; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CIONA INTESTINALIS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIMB BUDS; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL PLATE; PHYLOGENY; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84870479629     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11589     Document Type: Letter

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