The Tribolium ortholog of knirps and knirps-related is crucial for head segmentation but plays a minor role during abdominal patterning

Developmental Biology

Volumn 321, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 284-294

  Cerny, Alexander C ^a   Grossmann, Daniela ^b   Bucher, Gregor ^b   Klingler, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Evolution of development; Head gap gene; knirps; knirps related; Parental RNAi; Segmentation; Short germ insect; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; DM KNIRPS GENE; DM KNIRPS RELATED GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECTODERM; EVOLUTION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; HEAD; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 49049110663     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.05.527     Document Type: Article

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