Gene expression profiles of transcription factors and signaling molecules in the ascidian embryo: towards a comprehensive understanding of gene networks.
Genomewide surveys of developmentally relevant genes in Ciona intestinalis.
The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis: insights into chordate and vertebrate origins.
Systematic analysis of embryonic expression profiles of zinc finger genes in Ciona intestinalis.
Developmental expression of Pax1/9 genes in urochordate and hemichordate gills: insight into function and evolution of the pharyngeal epithelium.
Proteomic characterization of sperm radial spokes identifies a novel spoke protein with an ubiquitin domain.
Evolutionary conservation and diversification of Rh family genes and proteins.
Vitamin K-dependent proteins in Ciona intestinalis, a basal chordate lacking a blood coagulation cascade.
Patterning the ascidian nervous system: structure, expression and transgenic analysis of the CiHox3 gene.
The conserved Rieske oxygenase DAF-36/Neverland is a novel cholesterol-metabolizing enzyme.
Genomic- and protein-based approaches for connectin (titin) identification in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Identification and sequence of seventy-nine new transcripts expressed in hemocytes of Ciona intestinalis, three of which may be involved in characteristic cell-cell communication.
Ascidians as a vertebrate-like model organism for physiological studies of Rho GTPase signaling.
Gene duplication events producing muscle (M) and brain (B) isoforms of cytoplasmic creatine kinase: cDNA and deduced amino acid sequences from two lower chordates.
Tachykinin and tachykinin receptor of an ascidian, Ciona intestinalis: evolutionary origin of the vertebrate tachykinin family.
(beta)-catenin mediates the specification of endoderm cells in ascidian embryos.
Isolation and phylogeny of novel cytochrome P450 genes from tunicates (Ciona spp.): a CYP3 line in early deuterostomes?
Cloning of a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored alpha-2-macroglobulin cDNA from the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, and its possible role in immunity.
Evolution of Class I cytokine receptors.
Evolution of the Ikaros gene family: implications for the origins of adaptive immunity.
Molecular cloning and characterization of a thioredoxin/nucleoside diphosphate kinase related dynein intermediate chain from the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis.
Novel fatty acid elongases and their use for the reconstitution of docosahexaenoic acid biosynthesis.
Three distinct lineages of mesenchymal cells in Ciona intestinalis embryos demonstrated by specific gene expression.
Genetic basis for the evolution of vertebrate mineralized tissue.
Allorecognition in urochordates: identification of a highly variable complement receptor-like protein expressed in follicle cells of Ciona.
Further characterization of genes expressed during Ciona intestinalis metamorphosis.
Fgf genes in the basal chordate Ciona intestinalis.
Region specific gene expressions in the central nervous system of the ascidian embryo.
The animal sialyltransferases and sialyltransferase-related genes: a phylogenetic approach.
A novel neuronal calcium sensor family protein, calaxin, is a potential Ca(2+)-dependent regulator for the outer arm dynein of metazoan cilia and flagella.
Crystal structure of a Ca2+-dependent regulator of flagellar motility reveals the open-closed structural transition.
Identification and developmental expression of three Distal-less homeobox containing genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Ascidian and amphioxus Adh genes correlate functional and molecular features of the ADH family expansion during vertebrate evolution.
Comparative genomic and phylogenetic investigation of the xenobiotic metabolizing arylamine N-acetyltransferase enzyme family.
Isolation and characterization of the cDNA for a Ciona intestinalis RNA binding protein: spatial and temporal expression during development.
A conserved non-reproductive GnRH system in chordates.
Molecular cloning of a putative Ciona intestinalis cionin receptor, a new member of the CCK/gastrin receptor family.
Six novel gonadotropin-releasing hormones are encoded as triplets on each of two genes in the protochordate, Ciona intestinalis.
The structure, expression and function prediction of DAZAP2, a down-regulated gene in multiple myeloma.
Expression patterns of musashi homologs of the ascidians, Halocynthia roretzi and Ciona intestinalis.
Transposon-mediated enhancer detection reveals the location, morphology and development of the cupular organs, which are putative hydrodynamic sensors, in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Structure and the evolutionary implication of the triplicated complement factor B genes of a urochordate ascidian, Ciona intestinalis.
Tunicates have unusual nuclear lamins with a large deletion in the carboxyterminal tail domain.
Developmental expression of ascidian neurotransmitter synthesis genes. I. Choline acetyltransferase and acetylcholine transporter genes.
Biochemical and functional characterization of protein kinase CK2 in ascidian Ciona intestinalis oocytes at fertilization. Cloning and sequence analysis of cDNA for alpha and beta subunits.
T-box genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis: characterization of cDNAs and spatial expression.
An exceptional salt-tolerant antimicrobial peptide derived from a novel gene family of haemocytes of the marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis.
Peptidomic analysis of the central nervous system of the protochordate, Ciona intestinalis: homologs and prototypes of vertebrate peptides and novel peptides.
Suppressor of hairless activates brachyury expression in the Ciona embryo.
Complement in urochordates: cloning and characterization of two C3-like genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
RJLs: a new family of Ras-related GTP-binding proteins.
Structure, expression, and cluster organization of genes encoding gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors found in the neural complex of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Functional analysis of synaptotagmin gene regulatory regions in two distantly related ascidian species.
Molecular evolution of the reactive oxygen-generating NADPH oxidase (Nox/Duox) family of enzymes.
The synapsin gene family in basal chordates: evolutionary perspectives in metazoans.
Characteristics of NADPH oxidase genes (Nox2, p22, p47, and p67) and Nox4 gene expressed in blood cells of juvenile Ciona intestinalis.
Mechanism of self-sterility in a hermaphroditic chordate.
Globin genes are present in Ciona intestinalis.
Identification of neuron-specific promoters in Ciona intestinalis.
A reverse search for antimicrobial peptides in Ciona intestinalis: identification of a gene family expressed in hemocytes and evaluation of activity.
Expression of hedgehog genes in Ciona intestinalis embryos.
Origin of the vertebrate visual cycle: III. Distinct distribution of RPE65 and beta-carotene 15,15'-monooxygenase homologues in Ciona intestinalis.
Neural map of the larval central nervous system in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Identification and localization of the sperm CRISP family protein CiUrabin involved in gamete interaction in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Novel vanadium-binding proteins (vanabins) identified in cDNA libraries and the genome of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
A potassium channel (Kv4) cloned from the heart of the tunicate Ciona intestinalis and its modulation by a KChIP subunit.
The ascidian homolog of the vertebrate homeobox gene Rx is essential for ocellus development and function.
Isolation and characterization of endostyle-specific genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Ion channel clustering at the axon initial segment and node of Ranvier evolved sequentially in early chordates.
Actin capping proteins, CapZ (beta-actinin) and tropomodulin in amphioxus striated muscle.
A reticular rhapsody: phylogenic evolution and nomenclature of the RTN/Nogo gene family.
Origin of the vertebrate visual cycle: II. Visual cycle proteins are localized in whole brain including photoreceptor cells of a primitive chordate.
Origin of the vertebrate visual cycle: genes encoding retinal photoisomerase and two putative visual cycle proteins are expressed in whole brain of a primitive chordate.
Cloning and expression of a type IX-like collagen in tissues of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
A role for variable region-containing chitin-binding proteins (VCBPs) in host gut-bacteria interactions.
Identification and developmental expression of Ci-msxb: a novel homologue of Drosophila msh gene in Ciona intestinalis.
Regulatory elements controlling Ci-msxb tissue-specific expression during Ciona intestinalis embryonic development.
The genome of the early chordate Ciona intestinalis encodes only five cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins including a single type I and type II keratin and a unique IF-annexin fusion protein.
Expression and functional analysis of Cititf1, an ascidian NK-2 class gene, suggest its role in endoderm development.
Characterization of a novel vasopressin/oxytocin superfamily peptide and its receptor from an ascidian, Ciona intestinalis.
A glutamate switch controls voltage-sensitive phosphatase function.
Crystal structure of the cytoplasmic phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN)-like region of Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensing phosphatase provides insight into substrate specificity and redox regulation of the phosphoinositide phosphatase activity.
Phosphoinositide phosphatase activity coupled to an intrinsic voltage sensor.
Structural mechanism of voltage-dependent gating in an isolated voltage-sensing domain.
The evolutionary origin of animal cellulose synthase.
Amphioxus and ascidian Dmbx homeobox genes give clues to the vertebrate origins of midbrain development.
The evolutionary origins of vertebrate midbrain and MHB: insights from mouse, amphioxus and ascidian Dmbx homeobox genes.
Isolation and characterization of genes that are expressed during Ciona intestinalis metamorphosis.
Molecular cloning and bioinformatic analysis of SPATA4 gene.
EST analysis of gene expression in testis of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
mRNA 5'-leader trans-splicing in the chordates.
Three insulin-relaxin-like genes in Ciona intestinalis.
The evolution of thrombospondins and their ligand-binding activities.
The invertebrate ancestry of endocannabinoid signalling: an orthologue of vertebrate cannabinoid receptors in the urochordate Ciona intestinalis.
A lasp family protein of Ciona intestinalis.
Distinct expression patterns of glycoprotein hormone-alpha2 and -beta5 in a basal chordate suggest independent developmental functions.
Molecular characterisation, evolution and expression analysis of g-type lysozymes in Ciona intestinalis.
Induction of anterior neural fates in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Developmental regulation and tissue-specific localization of calmodulin mRNA in the protochordate Ciona intestinalis.
Gene number in an invertebrate chordate, Ciona intestinalis.
Nonmethylated transposable elements and methylated genes in a chordate genome.
The dopamine-synthesizing cells in the swimming larva of the tunicate Ciona intestinalis are located only in the hypothalamus-related domain of the sensory vesicle.
Ciona intestinalis nuclear receptor 1: a member of steroid/thyroid hormone receptor family.
Follicle cell proteasome activity and acid extract from the egg vitelline coat prompt the onset of self-sterility in Ciona intestinalis oocytes.
A mechanism for graded motor control encoded in the channel properties of the muscle ACh receptor.
Novel G-protein-coupled receptor gene expressed specifically in the entire neural tube of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Toll-like receptors of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis: prototypes with hybrid functionalities of vertebrate Toll-like receptors.
Ci-POU-IV expression identifies PNS neurons in embryos and larvae of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Ci-IPF1, the pancreatic homeodomain transcription factor, is expressed in neural cells of Ciona intestinalis larva.
Interaction of notochord-derived fibrinogen-like protein with Notch regulates the patterning of the central nervous system of Ciona intestinalis embryos.
Isolation and expression of a novel MBL-like collectin cDNA enhanced by LPS injection in the body wall of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
Developmental expression of tryptophan hydroxylase gene in Ciona intestinalis.
Precraniate origin of cranial motoneurons.
Acetylcholinesterase from the invertebrate Ciona intestinalis is capable of assembling into asymmetric forms when co-expressed with vertebrate collagenic tail peptide.