The T-box genes H15 and optomotor-blind in the spiders Cupiennius salei, Tegenaria atrica and Achaearanea tepidariorum and the dorsoventral axis of arthropod appendages

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-154

  Janssen, Ralf ^a,b   Feitosa, Natalia M ^a   Damen, Wim G M ^a   Prpic, Nikola Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOLOGY; SPIDER; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIDERS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ACHAEARANEA TEPIDARIORUM; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CUPIENNIUS; CUPIENNIUS SALEI; DIPLOPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GLOMERIS MARGINATA; TEGENARIA ATRICA;

EID: 40349097915     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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