Krüppel acts as a gap gene regulating expression of hunchback and even-skipped in the intermediate germ cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 471-481

  Mito, Taro ^a   Okamoto, Haruko ^a   Shinahara, Wakako ^a   Shinmyo, Yohei ^a   Miyawaki, Katsuyuki ^a   Ohuchi, Hideyo ^a   Noji, Sumihare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gap gene; Gryllus bimaculatus; Intermediate germ; Kr ppel; RNAi; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HOX PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN EVEN SKIPPED; PROTEIN HUNCHBACK; PROTEIN KRUPPEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSECT; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; VERTEBRA;

GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ONCOPELTUS;

EID: 33745007537     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.12.057     Document Type: Article

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