Growth and patterning are evolutionarily dissociated in the vestigial wing discs of workers of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 308, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 769-776

  Bowsher, Julia H ^a   Wray, Gregory A ^a   Abouheif, Ehab ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; WING;

FORMICIDAE; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 36348938299     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21200     Document Type: Article

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