Dynamic and Polarized Muscle Cell Behaviors Accompany Tail Morphogenesis in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Yale J. Passamaneck; Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis; Anna Di Gregorio

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000714

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Dynamic and Polarized Muscle Cell Behaviors Accompany Tail Morphogenesis in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Yale J. Passamaneck,

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Anna Di Gregorio

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America
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Anna Di Gregorio

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Anna Di Gregorio

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hadj@mskcc.org (A-KH), and2015@med.cornell.edu (ADG)

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Dynamic and Polarized Muscle Cell Behaviors Accompany Tail Morphogenesis in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Yale J. Passamaneck,
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis,
Anna Di Gregorio

Published: August 8, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000714

About the Authors

Yale J. Passamaneck

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Anna Di Gregorio

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Anna Di Gregorio

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Anna Di Gregorio

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hadj@mskcc.org (A-KH), and2015@med.cornell.edu (ADG)

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD YP AH. Performed the experiments: YP. Analyzed the data: AD YP AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD YP AH. Wrote the paper: AD YP AH.

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