Insights into the urbilaterian brain: Conserved genetic patterning mechanisms in insect and vertebrate brain development

Heredity

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 465-477

  Lichtneckert, R ^a   Reichert, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain development; Brain evolution; Drosophila; Midbrain hindbrain boundary; Mouse; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

BRAIN; EVOLUTION;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECTS; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

BILATERIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 18444399958     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800664     Document Type: Review

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