Comparison of early nerve cord development in insects and vertebrates

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2309-2325

  Arendt, Detlev ^a,b   Nübler Jung, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CNS; Dorsoventral axis inversion; Evolution; Insect; Neurogenesis; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

NETRIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DORSAL ROOT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; INSECT; MEDIAN NERVE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CORD; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL; VENTRAL ROOT; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECTS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURONS; VERTEBRATES;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344223266     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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