Regulation and function of tailless in the long germ wasp Nasonia vitripennis

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 216, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 493-498

  Lynch, Jeremy A ^a   Olesnicky, Eugenia C ^a   Desplan, Claude ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of development; Nasonia; Orthodenticle; Tailless; Terminal system

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; TAILLESS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WASP;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; WASPS;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS;

EID: 33745948297     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-006-0076-5     Document Type: Article

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