A novel gene family controls species-specific morphological traits in Hydra

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2436-2449

  Khalturin, Konstantin ^a   Anton Erxleben, Friederike ^a   Sassmann, Sylvia ^a   Wittlieb, Jörg ^a   Hemmrich, Georg ^a   Bosch, Thomas C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SECRETION; TAXONOMY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HYDRA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

HYDRA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; HYDRA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 56849129816     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060278     Document Type: Article

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