Pair-rule patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera: Expression of even-skipped combines traits known from beetles and fruitfly

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 206, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 447-454

  Binner, Priska ^a   Sander, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternating stripe intensities; Apis mellifera; Even skipped; Frame of pair rule patterning; Long germ segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001027005     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050074     Document Type: Article

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