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Sea urchin (invertebrate)

Known as: Sea Urchins, Urchin, Sea, Echinoideas 
Somewhat flattened, globular echinoderms, having thin, brittle shells of calcareous plates. They are useful models for studying FERTILIZATION and… (More)

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Arbacia punctulataLytechinusMicrobiologicalaspects of radiation effects
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Echinodermata

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Sand-Dollarheart urchin

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1936-2018
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Sea urchin (invertebrate)
physiological aspects
Microbiological
Echinodermata
Lytechinus
Arbacia punctulata

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
We report the sequence and analysis of the 814-megabase genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, a model for… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Population structure and speciation in tropical seas: global phylogeography of the sea urchin Diadema.
The causes of speciation in the sea are rarely obvious, because geographical barriers are not conspicuous and dispersal abilities… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Nuclear beta-catenin is required to specify vegetal cell fates in the sea urchin embryo.
Beta-catenin is thought to mediate cell fate specification events by localizing to the nucleus where it modulates gene expression… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Genomic cis-regulatory logic: experimental and computational analysis of a sea urchin gene.
The genomic regulatory network that controls gene expression ultimately determines form and function in each species. The… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Biochemical and cellular effects of roscovitine, a potent and selective inhibitor of the cyclin-dependent kinases cdc2, cdk2 and cdk5.
Cyclin-dependent kinases (cdk) play an essential role in the intracellular control of the cell division cycle (cdc). These… (More)
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Rates of DNA sequence evolution differ between taxonomic groups.
The mutation rates of DNA sequences during evolution can be estimated from interspecies DNA sequence differences by assaying… (More)
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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Detection of mrnas in sea urchin embryos by in situ hybridization using asymmetric RNA probes.
Asymmetric RNA probes, which contain only the mRNA coding strand, provide a large increase in hybridization efficiency in situ… (More)
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Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Cyclin: a protein specified by maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs that is destroyed at each cleavage division.
Cleavage in embryos of the sea urchin Arbacia punctulata consists of eight very rapid divisions that require continual protein… (More)
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Partition of Cell Particles and Macromolecules
In the first chapter, R. 0. Rahm summarizes information on the various photoproducts that can be produced in DNA, such as… (More)
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Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Positional information and the spatial pattern of cellular differentiation.
The problem of pattern is considered in terms of how genetic information can be translated in a reliable manner to give specific… (More)
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