Expression pattern of a butterfly achaete-scute homolog reveals the homology of butterfly wing scales and insect sensory bristles

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 807-813

  Galant, Ron ^a   Skeath, James B ^b   Paddock, Steve ^a   Lewis, David L ^a   Carroll, Sean B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; PRECIS COENIA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032474896     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(98)70322-7     Document Type: Article

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