Wingless signaling in a large insect, the blowfly Lucilia sericata: A beautiful example of evolutionary developmental biology

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 347-360

  Mellenthin, Katja ^a   Fahmy, Khalid ^a,d   Ali, Reda A ^a,c   Hunding, Axel ^b   Rocha, Sol Da ^a   Baumgartner, Stefan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Assiut University   (Egypt)

^d Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Long range patterning; Lucilia sericata; Parasegments; Wingless

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER; WNT1 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CALLIPHORIDAE; INSECTA; LUCILIA (BLOWFLY); LUCILIA SERICATA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 30744437176     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20632     Document Type: Article

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