The development and evolution of left-right asymmetry in invertebrates: Lessons from Drosophila and snails

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3497-3515

  Okumura, Takashi ^a   Utsuno, Hiroki ^b   Kuroda, Junpei ^a   Gittenberger, Edmund ^c,d   Asami, Takahiro ^b   Matsuno, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actin; Chirality; Developmental constraint; Directional asymmetry; Handedness; Invertebrates; Myosin I

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CHIRALITY; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HINDLIMB; HOMOZYGOTE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; SNAILS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; PROTOSTOMIA;

EID: 57149127744     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21788     Document Type: Review

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