A Hox class 3 orthologue from the spider Cupiennius salei is expressed in a Hox-gene-like fashion

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 208, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 586-590

  Damen, Wim G M ^a   Tautz, Diethard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMEOBOX; HOX GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPIDERS;

EID: 0031797996     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050218     Document Type: Article

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