Early expression onset of tissue-specific effector genes during the specification process in sea urchin embryos.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the course of animal developmental processes, various tissues are differentiated through complex interactions within the gene regulatory network. As a general concept, differentiation has been considered to be the endpoint of specification processes. Previous works followed this view and provided a genetic control scheme of differentiation in sea urchin embryos: early specification genes generate distinct regulatory territories in an embryo to express a small set of differentiation driver genes; these genes eventually stimulate the expression of tissue-specific effector genes, which provide biological identity to differentiated cells, in each region. However, some tissue-specific effector genes begin to be expressed in parallel with the expression onset of early speci

SUBMITTER: Yamakawa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131483 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature