Eye ancestry: Old genes for new eyes

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-42

  Nilsson, Dan E ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; EYE; GENE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; REVIEW; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0029682036     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00417-7     Document Type: Article

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