A major role for zygotic hunchback in patterning the Nasonia embryo

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3705-3715

  Pultz, Mary Anne ^a   Westendorf, Lori ^a,c   Gale, Samuel D ^a,d   Hawkins, Kyle ^a   Lynch, Jeremy ^b   Pitt, Jason N ^a,d   Reeves, Nick L ^a,e   Yao, Jennifer C Y ^a   Small, Stephen ^b   Desplan, Claude ^b   Leaf, David S ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SEATTLE GENETICS INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Drosophila; Evolution of development; Hunchback; Hymenoptera; Nasonia

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEAD; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITOID; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX; TRIBOLIUM; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HMGB PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WASPS;

HYMENOPTERA; NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS;

EID: 24944437186     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01939     Document Type: Article

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