Motoko Tanaka-Kunishima

BMC Evolutionary Biology BioMed Central (2007)

Motoko Tanaka-kunishima, Yoshihiro Ishida, Kunitaro Takahashi, Takashi Oonuma

Research article Ancient intron insertion sites and palindromic genomic duplication evolutionally shapes an elementally functioning membrane protein family

Ancient intron insertion sites and palindromic genomic duplication evolutionally shapes an elementally functioning membrane protein family

Tanaka-Kunishima, Motoko, Ishida, Yoshihiro, Takahashi, Kunitaro, Honda, Motoo, Oonuma, Takashi

Cleavage-arrested cell triplets from ascidian embryo differentiate into three cell types depending on cell combination and contact timing

Tanaka-Kunishima, Motoko, Takahashi, Kunitaro

During early ascidian development, which is a prototype of early vertebrate development, anterior neuroectoderm cells (a4.2) from the eight-cell embryo are destined to become anterior neural...