Eyes absent: A gene family found in several metazoan phyla

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 479-485

  Duncan, Melinda K ^a   Kos, Lidia ^b   Jenkins, Nancy A ^c   Gilbert, Debra J ^c   Copeland, Neal G ^c   Tomarev, Stanislav I ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CEPHALOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031177790     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900480     Document Type: Article

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