Emerging model systems in evo-devo: Horned beetles and the origins of diversity

Evolution and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 323-328

  Moczek, Armin P ^a   Andrews, Justen ^a   Kijimoto, Teiya ^a   Yerushalmi, Yoram ^b   Rose, Debra J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MODEL;

ANIMAL; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HORN; MALE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HORNS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 34447635926     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2007.00168.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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