Modification of the larval swimming behavior in Oikopleura dioica, a chordate with a miniaturized central nervous system by dsRNA injection into fertilized eggs

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 324, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 114-127

  Mikhaleva, Yana ^a   Kreneisz, Orsolya ^a,b   Olsen, Lisbeth C ^a   Glover, Joel C ^a,b   Chourrout, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIKOPLEURA; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; UROCHORDATA;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SWIMMING; UROCHORDATA; ZYGOTE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; LARVA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SWIMMING; UROCHORDATA; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84925338849     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22607     Document Type: Article

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