The expression and function of the achaete-scute genes in Tribolium castaneum reveals conservation and variation in neural pattern formation and cell fate specification

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 4373-4381

  Wheeler, Scott R ^a   Carrico, Michelle L ^a   Wilson, Beth A ^a   Brown, Susan J ^b   Skeath, James B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achaete scute; Central nervous system; Drosophila melanogaster; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; COLEOPTERA; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM;

NASA DISCIPLINE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NASA PROGRAM FUNDAMENTAL SPACE BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BRAIN; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 0141502059     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00646     Document Type: Article

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