TY - GEN AU - Noriyuki Satoh TI - Developmental Genomics of Ascidians SN - 9781118656181 U1 - 596/.2 PY - 2014/// CY - Hoboken, New Jersey PB - Wiley‐Blackwell N1 - A brief introduction to ascidians -- The development of tadpole larvae and sessile juveniles -- Genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics -- Research tools -- The function and regulation of maternal transcripts -- Larval tail muscle -- Endoderm -- Epidermis -- Notochord -- The larval and adult nervous systems -- Mesenchyme -- Making blueprint of chordate body : dynamic activities of regulatory genes -- Development of the juvenile heart -- Germ-cell line, gametes, fertilization, and metamorphosis -- Innate immune system and blood cells -- Colonial ascidians : asexual reproduction and colony specificity -- Evolutionary developmental genomics ER -