Ultrabithorax is required for membranous wing identity in the beetle Tribolium castaneum

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7026, 2005, Pages 643-647

  Tomoyasu, Yoshinori ^a   Wheeler, Scott R ^b,c   Denell, Robin E ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MODIFICATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; WINGS;

EVOLUTIONARY MODIFICATION; INSECTS; WING IDENTITY; WING-LIKE PATTERNS;

GENES;

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BEETLE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; IMAGINAL DISC; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRIBOLIUM; UBX GENE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; PTERYGOTA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM; WING;

EID: 14144249193     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03272     Document Type: Article

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