Tribolium Wnts: Evidence for a larger repertoire in insects with overlapping expression patterns that suggest multiple redundant functions in embryogenesis

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 218, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 193-202

  Bolognesi, Renata ^a   Beermann, Anke ^b   Farzana, Laila ^a   Wittkopp, Nadine ^b   Lutz, Rebekka ^b   Balavoine, Guillaume ^c   Brown, Susan J ^a   Schröder, Reinhard ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology   (Germany)

^c CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genome; Insect; Tribolium; Wnt gene family

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INVERTEBRATE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIBOLIUM; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIBOLIUM; WNT PROTEINS;

APIS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 40349106371     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-007-0170-3     Document Type: Article

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