The genes orthodenticle and hunchback substitute for bicoid in the beetle Tribolium

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6932, 2003, Pages 621-625

  Schröder, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT CONTROL; MUTAGENS; RNA;

BICOID GENES;

GENES;

HUNCHBACK PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOGEN; ORTHODENTICLE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEAD; INSECT GENETICS; JAW; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THORAX; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTODERM; BODY PATTERNING; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 0242584375     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01536     Document Type: Article

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