Toll homolog expression in the beetle Tribolium suggests a different mode of dorsoventral patterning than in Drosophila embryos

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 107-114

  Maxton Küchenmeister, Jörg ^a   Handel, Klaus ^b   Schmidt Ott, Urs ^a   Roth, Siegfried ^b   Jäckle, Herbert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axis evolution; Dorsoventral patterning; Toll signaling; Tribolium

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIBOLIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENE;

CLOGMIA ALBIPUNCTATA; DROSOPHILA; TRIBOLIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENOTYPE; INSECT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TRANSGENES; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 0033125340     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00041-6     Document Type: Article

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