Chasing tails in ascidians: developmental insights into the origin and evolution of chordates

Cell lineage analysis in ascidian embryos by intracellular injection of a tracer enzyme

1987 • 545 citations

Developmental Biology of Ascidians

1995 • 488 citations

Developmental biology of ascidians

1994 • 383 citations

The generation of diversity and pattern in animal development

1992 • 284 citations

Deuterostome phylogeny and the sister group of the chordates: evidence from molecules and morphology.

1994 • 261 citations

Chordate muscle actins differ distinctly from invertebrate muscle actins

1984 • 243 citations

The ancestry of the vertebrates

1986 • 228 citations

The T genes in embryogenesis

1994 • 215 citations

Homologs of the mouse Brachyury gene are involved in the specification of posterior terminal structures in Drosophila, Tribolium, and Locusta.

1994 • 206 citations

The origin of vertebrates

1955 • 202 citations

A yellow crescent cytoskeletal domain in ascidian eggs and its role in early development

1983 • 187 citations

An Ascidian Homolog of the Mouse Brachyury (T) Gene is Expressed Exclusively in Notochord Cells at the Fate Restricted Stage

1994 • 160 citations

Induction of Notochord during Ascidian Embryogenesis

1994 • 127 citations

Multiple origins of anural development in ascidians inferred from rDNA sequences

1995 • 96 citations

Timing of initiation of muscle‐specific gene expression in the ascidian embryo precedes that of developmental fate restriction in lineage cells

1995 • 86 citations

Interspecific hybridization between an anural and urodele ascidian: Differential expression of urodele features suggests multiple mechanisms control anural development

1990 • 82 citations

Regionality of egg cytoplasm that promotes muscle differentiation in embryo of the ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi

1992 • 81 citations

Induction of brain and sensory pigment cells in the ascidian embryo analyzed by experiments with isolated blastomeres

1991 • 73 citations

Novel genes expressed differentially in ascidians with alternate modes of development

1993 • 68 citations

Expression of AMD 1, a gene for a MyoD 1-related factor in the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi

1994 • 64 citations

Identification of a cytoskeletal protein localized in the myoplasm of ascidian eggs: localization is modified during anural development

1991 • 62 citations

Determinative mechanisms in secondary muscle lineages of ascidian embryos: development of muscle-specific features in isolated muscle progenitor cells

1990 • 59 citations

Coexpression and Promoter Function in Two Muscle Actin Gene Complexes of Different Structural Organization in the Ascidian Halocynthia roretzi

1995 • 57 citations

Ultraviolet irradiation during ooplasmic segregation prevents gastrulation, sensory cell induction, and axis formation in the ascidian embryo

1990 • 53 citations

Expression of epidermis-specific antigens during embryogenesis of the ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi

1987 • 53 citations

Structure of the caudal neural tube in an ascidian larva: Vestiges of its possible evolutionary origin from a ciliated band

1992 • 52 citations

Tunicate muscle actin genes

1992 • 50 citations

Short Upstream Sequences Associated with the Muscle-Specific Expression of an Actin Gene in Ascidian Embryos

1994 • 44 citations

An evolutionary change in the muscle lineage of an anural ascidian embryo is restored by interspecific hybridization with a urodele ascidian

1991 • 42 citations

Development of Egg Fragments of the Ascidian Ciona savignyi: The Cytoplasmic Factors Responsible for Muscle Differentiation Are Separated into a Specific Fragment

1994 • 35 citations

Multiple actin genes encoding the same α-muscle isoform are expressed during ascidian development

1992 • 35 citations

Factors necessary for restoring an evolutionary change in an anural ascidian embryo

1992 • 35 citations

The ascidian embryo as a prototype of vertebrate neurogenesis

1993 • 34 citations

PHYLOGENETIC SPECULATION OF THE TUNICATA

1971 • 24 citations

Muscle determinants in the ascidian egg are inactivated by UV irradiation and the inactivation is partially rescued by injection of maternal mRNAs

1995 • 22 citations

An ankryin-like protein in ascidian eggs and its role in the evolution of direct development

1993 • 13 citations