Dynamic gene expression is required for anterior regionalization in a spider

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1468-1472

  Pechmann, Matthias ^a,b   McGregor, Alistair P ^a,c   Schwager, Evelyn E ^a   Feitosa, Natália M ^a   Damen, Wim G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Achaearanea tepidariorum; Evolution and development; Hairy orthodenticle; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HAIRY PROTEIN, INSECT; HEDGEHOG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; INSECT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; HAIRY GENE; HEDGEHOG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHODENTICLE GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPIDER; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NICK END LABELING; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACHAEARANEA TEPIDARIORUM; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; ERINACEIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPIDERS;

EID: 60849091043     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811150106     Document Type: Article

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