An urbilaterian origin of the tripartite brain: Developmental genetic insights from Drosophila

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2365-2373

  Hirth, Frank ^a   Kammermeier, Lars ^a   Frei, Erich ^b   Walldorf, Uwe ^c   Noll, Markus ^b   Reichert, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain development; Brain evolution; Drosophila melanogaster; Hox; Midbrain hindbrain boundary; Otx; Pax

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HOX GENE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038820118     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00438     Document Type: Review

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