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. 2010 Oct 19;19(4):487-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.10.002.

How the sea squirt nucleus tells mesoderm not to be endoderm

Richard M Parton  1 , Ilan Davis
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How the sea squirt nucleus tells mesoderm not to be endoderm

Richard M Parton et al. Dev Cell. .

Abstract

Sea squirts are simple invertebrate chordates. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Takatori et al. show nuclear migration within ascidian mesendodermal cells enables polarized localization of Not mRNA, which encodes a homeobox protein that distinguishes mesoderm from endoderm fates. The link between nuclear migration and mRNA localization suggests exciting parallels with protostomes.

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