Tribolium castaneum twist: Gastrulation and mesoderm formation in a short-germ beetle

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-31

  Handel, Klaus ^b   Basal, Abidin ^a   Fan, Xiang ^c   Roth, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsoventral axis formation; Evolution of development; Growthzone; Insect embryogenesis; Short germ embryo

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GASTRULATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; MESODERM; MITOSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRIBOLIUM;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 12144256211     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-004-0446-9     Document Type: Article

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