Uitrabithorax function in butterfly wings and the evolution of insect wing patterns

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 109-115

  Weatherbee, Scott D ^a   Nijhout, H Frederik ^b   Grunert, Laura W ^b   Halder, Georg ^a   Galant, Ron ^a   Selegue, Jayne ^a   Carroll, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOX GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DROSOPHILA;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ULTRABITHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; BUTTERFLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; DIPTERA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

EID: 0033545256     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80064-5     Document Type: Note

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