Regulation and evolution of cardiopharyngeal cell identity and behavior: Insights from simple chordates

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 119-128

  Kaplan, Nicole ^a   Razy Krajka, Florian ^a   Christiaen, Lionel ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN EBF; PROTEIN TBX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASCIDIACEA; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE CONTROL; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRUNK VENTRAL CELL; ANIMAL; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HEART; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRANCHIAL REGION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEART; MORPHOGENESIS; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 84925642518     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.02.008     Document Type: Review

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