The leech hunchback protein is expressed in the epithelium and CNS but not in the segmental precursor lineages

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 210, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 277-288

  Iwasa, Janet H ^a,b   Suver, Daniel W ^a   Savage, Robert M ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annelid; Anteroposterior patterning; Hunchback; Micromere

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPITHELIUM; LEECH; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034021224     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050315     Document Type: Article

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