Pax 6: Mastering eye morphogenesis and eye evolution

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 371-377

  Gehring, Walter J ^a   Ikeo, Kazuho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; METAZOON; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 0033198374     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01776-X     Document Type: Note

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