Segmentation: Painting stripes from flies to vertebrates

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-10

  Pick, Leslie ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMITE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; INSECTS; SOMITES; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031844897     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)23:1<1::AID-DVG1>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Review

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