Developmental gene expression provides clues to relationships between sponge and eumetazoan body plans

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Leininger, Sven ^a   Adamski, Marcin ^a   Bergum, Brith ^a,c   Guder, Corina ^a,c   Liu, Jing ^a   Laplante, Mary ^a   Bråte, Jon ^b   Hoffmann, Friederike ^a   Fortunato, Sofia ^a   Jordal, Signe ^a   Rapp, Hans Tore ^a   Adamska, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN; BRACHYURY PROTEIN; FETOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HOMOLOGY; SPONGE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CNIDARIA; CTENOPHORA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; EUMETAZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATOSTELLA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONGE (PORIFERA); WATER FLOW; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CNIDARIA; FETAL PROTEINS; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PORIFERA; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84901236288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4905     Document Type: Article

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