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SUBMITTER: Mokady O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC19894 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mokady O O Dick M H MH Lackschewitz D D Schierwater B B Buss L W LW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19980301 7
We report the isolation of an empty spiracles class homeodomain-containing gene, Cn-ems, from the hydrozoan Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, the first gene of this class characterized in a lower metazoan. Cn-ems was found to be expressed in the head of gastrozooids, specifically in endodermal epithelial cells of the taeniolae of the hypostome. Cn-ems is not expressed in gonozooids, which lack taeniolae. Experimental conversion of the posterior region of the planula larva into head structures up-re ...[more]