Developmental gene regulatory network evolution: Insights from comparative studies in echinoderms

Genesis

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 193-207

  Hinman, Veronica F ^a   Cheatle Jarvela, Alys M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate specification process; Early development process; Echinoderm; Evolution process; Invertebrate

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX;

AURICULARIA; BLASTOMA; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECHINODERM; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMICENTROTUS; HEMICENTROTUS PULCHERRIMUS; HEMICHORDATA; LYTECHINUS; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIMARY MESENCHYME CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SEA CUCUMBER; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARFISH; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

ASTEROIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; HOLOTHUROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; OPHIUROIDEA;

CELL FATE SPECIFICATION PROCESS; EARLY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; ECHINODERM; EVOLUTION PROCESS; INVERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; ECHINODERMATA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY, COMPARATIVE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84896494068     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22757     Document Type: Review

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