Ubx regulates differential enlargement and diversification of insect hind legs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Mahfooz, Najmus ^a   Turchyn, Nataliya ^a   Mihajlovic, Michelle ^a   Hrycaj, Steven ^a   Popadić, Aleksandar ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN UBX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HINDLIMB; HOUSE CRICKET; HOX GENE; INSECT; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MILKWEED BUG; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACHETA; ACHETA DOMESTICUS; HEXAPODA; ONCOPELTUS; ONCOPELTUS FASCIATUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HINDLIMB; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 41149089611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000866     Document Type: Article

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