Arthropod segmentation: Beyond the Drosophila paradigm

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 905-916

  Peel, Andrew D ^a   Chipman, Ariel D ^a   Akam, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 28844499831     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1724     Document Type: Review

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