Multiple Wnt Genes Are Required for Segmentation in the Short-Germ Embryo of Tribolium castaneum

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 1624-1629

  Bolognesi, Renata ^a   Farzana, Laila ^a   Fischer, Tamara D ^a   Brown, Susan J ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM; WNT PROTEINS;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; METAZOA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 54149099328     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.09.057     Document Type: Article

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