A caudal homologue in the short germ band beetle Tribolium shows similarities to both, the Drosophila and the vertebrate caudal expression patterns

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 208, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 283-289

  Schulz, Cordula ^a,b   Schröder, Reinhard ^a,d   Hausdorf, Bernhard ^a,c   Wolff, Christian ^a   Tautz, Diethard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Zoologisches Museum   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ABDOMEN; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EXON; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HOMEOBOX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRIBOLIUM; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344863189     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050183     Document Type: Article

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